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LiberatedPatients A t FGHJAP COMMUNISTLEADERSSEEKONLY THE WILL TO LIVE KEPTTRIAL OF 24MEN AUVE IN JAP PRISONSfNEW REGIMESAY SIX FLORIDA-ALABAMA MPNAZI LEADERSTokyo, Oct. 19-(AP)—Japanese Communist leaders asked t^ie Socialist party today to join in' a united front against the Shide-hara Government, which they said “has no ability to cope with the present situation.’'Socialist did not reply immediately. Further talks between the groups were set for tomorrow, * but the National Federation of Toilers, a workers’ organization, strongly denounced the communist suggestion at the first toilers’Ameeting since the surrender.Meanwhile, Foreign Minister j j Shigeru Yoshida told his first press conference the chief task of Premier Kijurc) Shidehara’s cabinet was to carry out terms of Viie Potsdam conference smoothly and as rapidly as possible “to ^ demonstrate our good faith thru deeds ”Finney, General Hospital’s first I can prisoners to arrive in Japan, patients from prisoner of war This trio “worked and waited camps ip the Jap home islands; in Japan from late 1942 until theSTARTSNOV. 20have arrived with stories of life inside Japan during the war years.The liberated prisoners evacuated from the Japanese homeland are:Cpl. Daniel Hall, Chip ley, Fla.Sgt. Keller Denmark, Jr., Lutz,liberation.By GEORGE TUCKER Nuernberg, Oct. 19 (AP) — The- They saw B-29 raids grow fronr v,orld-g fiirst great war criminalsrare events to “everyday occur- tdal of 24 Wgh Nazis and Germanances, and watched the Jap civ-1 militarists and industrialists will ilian’s confidence drop from sure]begin ^ NUernfcerg on Nov. 20.victory to “a hundred-year war”. |the international Military Tribunaland finally “it can”t last mucT [ announced today.longer.” Toward the end, the I The date for the beginning ofFla.Cpl. Woodrow Stanland, Crystal j the war”, Denmark said River, Fla, j Incidentally, all of tinSgt. Robert Simmons, Birmingham, Ala.Sgt Albert Ennis, Mobile, Ala.Jap civilian “wouldn’t talk about j rhe proceedings to establish responsibility for the second worldsix | v/ar and its cruelties was set bylearned enough Japanese to read I the tribunal shortly after the mas-» little, and to talk quite a bit. I dye indictments presented to theIn fact, each of the men admit- court yesterday at its first setting Sgt Glenn D .Frazier, Ft. De- ted that he frequently talked with in Berlin had been served on 23 of posit, Ala. i Jap workers who were assigned (the defendants here in the Nuern-All are gaining weight rapidly,^ to work projects with them. Most I berg jail.appear to be in good physical condition, and—in the words of their war dofflcer, Lt. Erwin Rice, of New Orleans are “gettingalong splendidly.”With the exception of Hall and_ . ^ ^ Ennis, all of the ex-prisoners wereDomei reported that the cabihet 'nr Hmlt;» «f Rntnon^today discussed a portion of thedemocratization instructions Gen-eral MacArthur gave Shidehara 1 when he assumed the Premiership,taken at the time of Bataan’s fail. Hall and Ennis, however, were among the handful of mer^ who held out on Corregidor, “the rock”, until the total end of re-of there working Japs talked freely, unlers he was being watched by a supervisor.Opinion among the six liberated soldiers was varied as to the severity of treatment in the Philippines compared with that in the Jap home land. Some said it w*u. tougher in Japan than the Philippines, but the majority agreed that the treatment progressively improved with changing tide of theand decided to call a special sist,ance in the defense of the j war. It was at its worst afteimeeting of the ministers concern* Philippines. ec*‘ I Ennir, DenmarkElsewhere on the homefront, | were amongr the earliest Ameri-Domei said, more than 2,600 Nip-1 ponese Navy officers and men j •were being investigated on--6Us-[ gieion of misappropriating waruimaterials, and the number of Japanese repatriated since the end of the war rose to nearly 35,000 with arrival of the Destroyer Hlbiki at Uraga port from Yap with 285 army and navy personnel and 471 civilians^- ----------------Yoshida, veteran JapaneseREVOLUTIONBREAKS OUTthe fail of Bataan in the “death and Frazier J march” day.?, most agreed.The first winter in Japan was very bad”, Frazier said • “The Japs had enough that they could have kept us thope days,and they could have fed ua better, but they didn’t. They were at their high tide, and the worm hadn't turned yet. We had no stoves in our barracks, and not en-iiIfstatesman who once was mentioned prominently as a possible successor to resigned Premier Prince * Hi^ashi-kuni, told his first foreign press conference he had no plans for the foreign ministry.Yoshida asserted be believed the present constitution was democratic, but “revision is regarded as necessary” because the instrument had been “misused by militarists” and action was necessary“to prevent its possible misuse by other elements in the future,”He defended the Zaibatsu, wealth-controlling industrial families of Japan whose holding companies recently announced plans to offer shares of stock for sale to the public, as the people who brought “prosperity” to Japan in peace time.Allied headquarters, which has been recovering hidden wealth in | gold, silver and precious gems from Japanese chicken coops, barns and thermos jugs, froze jewelry, precious metals and securities of Japanese nationals being repatriated. As they come. ough clothes on our backs. And wo didn't have nearly enough food.Later .on, it. was_eaaior _tn junder-stand not being properly fed, be-The 24th defendant, Martin Bor-mann, apparently still is at large and probably will be tried in absentia.Indictments werlt; o^rved on the defendants—politicians, militarists, industrialists and other functionaries in Hitler’s Nazi regime—at 2:15 p. m. (8:15 a. m. EST). Maj. Anthony Neave, a British lawyer, gave copies of the 24 word accusation to the men in their carefully guarded cells. He explained to all exactly what their rights were. ,Lt. Col. Richard Owens of NewHaven, Connr, and two attorneys attached to United States forces in the European theater accompaniedNeave, in*his military* dafetffV was captured by the Germans in.the British retreat from Dunker-.que. He escaped from a German*;prison camp in 1944.The indictments were served on. Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess;Jnaqhim. A!on_ JEUhhentrop^Ley, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernest Kal-.,• Washington, Oct. 19 i/Pf — United States embassy officer at Caracas was fired on last night in the course of spreading revolution in Venezuela.The conflict is between rebel military and government forces.The incident involving the embassy official was disclosed by the state department today in making public dispatches from Ambassador Frank P. Corrigan on the revolt.The upheaval, according to these official reports, began at 4 p. m., yesterday at San Carlos barracks near Caracas and by 9 p. m„ last night the rebels had control of the president’s residence at Miraflores and the nearby military academy.They had set up headquarters in the academy.Meanwhile, government forces under leadership of President General Isiah Medina Y. Angarita, who has taken personal command, have captured the San Carlos bar-cauSe as her lines of communica- tenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg,tion were cut by MacArthur, the Jap home islands’ food supply suffered. But in those early days, they could have, treated us right and they just wouldn't do it. Later on, we couldn't expect much in the way of food, but they at least improved in other respects, for we got stoves in our barrackr the next two winters, and with the coal which was issued us plus that which we stole, we were able to keep warm all right.”All of the prisoners experience? followed this line. After the fall of the Philippines, they were assembled, then assigned to camps. Most of the men were at Cabana-tuan, then old Billibid prison before finally being shipped to Japan proper for work in the home islands. In Japan, they were kept at work in the sugar mills, on the farms, on dry docks, etc. Most of the men worked at about three different locations’ in Japan dur-Hans Frank; Wilhelm Frick, Julius' Streiched, Walther Funk, Hjataar Schacht, Gustav Krupp Von Boh-len Und Halbach, Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur Von Sehi-rach, Fritz Sauchel, Alfred Jodi, Frank Von Papen, Arthur Seyess-Inquart, Albert Speer, Constantin Von Neurath and Hans Fritzsche.The formal indictment was pre-lt; Continued on Pace 8. Column 3?(Continued on page 7—column 5)* WEATHER FORECASTS ** Georgia: Fair and continued ** warm today, considerable clou- ** diness with scattered light * showers north portion tonight ** and south portion Saturday; ** cooler Saturday, clearing in ** north portion. ** Extreme Northwest Florida:t* Fair this afternoon an J to- ** night, Saturday partly cloudy; ** not quite so warm. Gentle io ** moderate southeast winds. *
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Fri, Oct 19, 1945
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