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More About;/ (Continued from F*£e 1)merce.Lt. Col. Hugh F.-Kennedy, chaplain, delivered the invocation.Business and-committee meetings were to continue late today.‘Tack of Lies”Today’s resolution attacking the former Japanese general, identified as Susumu;Morioka, was the result of** news report :from Tokyo published yesterday in The Tribune. The general reportedly defended actions of Japanese soldiers -during the Death March and . said that American versions of the’marchareTintrue.Survivors of the Death March here termed/the'general's statements “a pack rof lies,0 including his estimate of the- distance of theKVMMiMnnMiSESimarch and. his,-denial of ;• Japanese atrocities. •' .“We were forced to match about 90 miles'?unde£-. a- blazing sun-for •four days with little food or. water,” Mr. Rodriguez said'today. “Many of- the boys were killed unmercifully along the 'joule, and others died of exhaustion/1 . Morioka said, the route was “aoout 45 miles'1 and- admitted 'that perhaps some of the ’Jap i soldiers “prodded Americans with ltheir .bayonets.’'! Rodriguez said he saw one sol-jdier shot, clubbed and bayoneted ;to death by a Jap guard because he attempted to secure water from a hand pump.Statement DeniedThe Bataan vet also denied Morioka’s statement ^that Japan* ese soldiers walked the entire distance with-the prisoners and said the guards actually • walked only in four-hour relays.Many other members of the local J3VO, all of them Death MarchMore About*Grantham(Continued from -Faffe .1)governor in two decades, predicted a GOP ^ sweep' in November. iHe congratulated the Republican*survivors, joined Rodriguez in de- cnouncing* Morioka’s statements, s Convention activities tomorrow l will be highlighted with a ban-j quet at the Hilton at *7:30 p. m.;I Gen. Charles A. Sage of Santa Fe:r will, he the ’principal speaker. Af*11 ter’dinner speakers include Sen. h Dennis Chavez1, Sen. Clinton An- C derson and D. K. Dalager, • man- \ agcr of the VA hospital here.-.s The sessions continue through i Saturday, closing with * a semi-formal dance in the Hilton ballroom.
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Albuquerque Tribune
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Thu, May 08, 1952
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