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U. S. to Court-Martial Yank PW DesertersmmConvertsat HomeWilson Says ActionAlso May Be Taken on Selfish TurncoatsWASHINGTON— 002). The Defense Department disclosed Thursday that American prisoners of Avar in Korea who refuse to be repatriated presumably will be classed as deserters and indicated action might be taken against others who turned progressive.”Defense Secretary Charles E, Wilson said in a special statement that the nation cannot '‘condone the actions of American war prisoners who made false confessions or who turned informer on their fellow prisoners in Red camps.''Americans have sympathy for all those who suffered physically and mentally at the hands nr^ the Communists, Wilson, said. All of us have high praise and admiration for those who resisted the Communist effort to break them down. Their fortitude will be recognized*Ho then added, however, that “we do not as a general principle condone those who made false confessions contrary to the interest of their country, or whose actions caused their fellow prisoners added misery.The Army had announced earlier tliat it is discharging from sendee without punishment the “progressives accused by fellow prisoners !o£ “collaborating'* with the Com-V.VNWVV'Jmss*sss?3. rri'-r.vyf-W.Oywu*“'vi.'.V.'•r—V4-vSTUNNED at reports that their soldier-son was among those who turned pro-Communist, Mr. and Mrs. George Veneris, of Hawthorne, seek solace in each other's arms. Pvt. James Veneris had refused repatriation.—(UP Telephoto.)Send Mothers to Korea, L.A. Legionnaire Says 'LOS ANGELES — lt;/P. AnAmerican Legion official proposed Thursday night that the government immediately fly to Korea the mothers of 23 American prisoners reported by a Communist correspondent to have refused repatriation.Harry Myers, director of spe-' ciai events for the Los Angeles County council of the Legion, said he was telegraphing a pica to national Commander Art Connell in Indianapolis to take up the matter with the government.Myers said he had read the mothers' comments and added: “Most of them seemed to think they could talk their sons out of it. It would be a tremendous psychological victory for us over the Reds if the mothers were able to talk their sons into returning to freedom/’rvt;. TAM£5 G. VENERIS Brain-Washing Victim?Bar Airportas Jet Stop to Cut PerilLET’S HUSTLE, CUZ COMPTON HAS A RUSTLECOMPTON — Strap on yore trusty six-guns. _ you law men and high-tail it for Compton. Cattle rustling has broken out here.At the cow ranch of James A. Miller, 13320 z. Central Ave., a black, white-faced cow, 5 years eld. worth $300 has just been stolen.That ain’t all. Only last week some ornery polecat rustled a 3-year-old cow from Miller.Miller lold officers he had just brought the cow in from the east pasture when whoops! The rustlers got her.
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Long Beach Independent
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Fri, Sep 25, 1953
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