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REPUBLIC MAIL REPUBLIC BULLDOG Ta Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Arizona. 11 August 17, 193a. Sgt. Gallagher Admits Fellow POWs Accused PW Cites Threat 'A Sonotone Hearing Considered Him 'Worst Guy' In Camp SriALL AS A MATCH FORT LEWIS, Wash. (AP) NEW YORK IUP) Sgt.

ociclVEIGIIToNir ONE OUNCE! Lt. Jefferson D. Erwin admitted yesterday that he made some of the pro-Communist statements attributed to him while a prison DID YOU You con buy a 7955 Mercury for as little as $2092? er of war in Korea. But, he he made them under threat of death. Erwin, 38-year-old Blanchard, fdf Hrt s't TbJs is rl aid HlAiNS.

Tr4fil CUALITT. career soldier, told of the James Gallagher ended his defense against murder-col-loboration charges yesterday with the admission that he was considered the "worst guy-In a Korean prison camp and had onry three American friends there. But the 23-year-old red-haired Brooklyn veteran steadfastly denied he murdered any ct his fellow prisoners. GALLAGHER, sitting with his arms crossed and constantly tsppine one toot, testified death threats by- his Chinese captors when he took the stand in his own behalf. He is being SONOTONE of Phoenix court-martialed on charges he F.

5. COLES. (plus fox lictnse) 425 7iff Trust BlJj. Phone AL 3-4216 See'your Mercury dealer! made disloyal statements and aided the enemy while a prisoner in 1951. When the indoctrination program started in his Cmp 5, Erwin said he was threatened with death if he did not agree to voluntarily arise and make a pro-Communist statement at a meeting of prisoners the next day.

The statement was to the effect the South Koreans started the war with the backing of American aggressors. NOW is the ime to buy a LAWN SPRINKLING SYSTEM Sports fans get the inside dope by reading Arnott Duncan's "Dunkin' With Dune" Erwin said he prefaced the Ex-POW On Trial Mrs. Slee Consoles Brother PHONE TODAY the statement, and all others he was forced to make, with words I r-i nnn run "1 I that the Chinese have taught DIG SAVINGS During Our 'Off-Scson' ytr serinslinf yrw NOW SAVE yor 4 yar fim. FREE us that the South Koreans, etc' or "according to what informa calmly in last-ditch effort to win acquittal of charges he committed the "unpremeditated" murders of three prisoners and collaborated with the enemy. The defense rested after calling a total of 11 witnesses, including Gallagher.

A total of 27 men testified against Gallagher. There were five more prosecution witnesses to testify, and the ofen.e said it might present Callagher as its sole rebuttal witness before the case goes to the court-martial judges for a decision today. Callagher testified 'under cross-examination that his poor reputation with other POWs was based purely on untrue rumors they had heard about him. I KNOW when I walked down toward another squad, they said. "You better keep tion we have available to us here, ESTIMATES the South Koreans, etc." in on- i eqr Tte twa4 Law Kii ARIZONA IRRIGATION CO.

AL 2-7434 he testified. They disliked me." Gallagher, who faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment at hard labor if convicted, appeared as his own "star" witness Monday and yesterday. He gave a total of three hours, 15 minutes of testimony. One of the prosecution rebuttal witnesses. Franklin D.

Harding, Mount Airy, Md a former prisoner, told about a conversation he had w-ith Gallagher just before they were repatriated in 1953. "Callagher asked me at Camp Three to be a witness for him when we got back to the states." Harding said. "I just told him I couldn't be of any help to anyone who would collaborate with the Chinese." Another rebuttal 1 1 ness, Emuel Turner, 22. Evarts, testified Gallagher kicked him down a hill because he took six pairs of trousers from ference being a thief over there and being a thief over here." Gallagher is charged with killing Cpl. John William Jones of Detroit, Cpl.

Donald Thomas Baxter of VVaukon, Iowa, and a soldier identified only as Dunn. He allegedly threw the sick and starving Jones and Baxter outdoors to freeze to death and beat Dunn and then hung him on a wooden peg. The defendant said he had thought often about the death of Jones. "I do not feel guilty," he said. "I've often wondered if I'd left that man in the room if he'd have lived.

I believe that with all the men dying in that room he would have died anyway. "I couldn't just see a man lie there and die. I was wondering about it. Maybe if I hadn't put him out he wouldn't have died. I still don't believe it was my fault." quiet here comes clouding your windshield Wipe it off quickly, easily with baking soda Just sprinkle baking soda on a damp cloth.

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