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bene,” ee vant coather agp ce Pepin * ~ : t me as * 1H i i wad HIGH COURT OKs SENTENCE . Vi YAMASHITA, | 6-2 VOTE me tommene oe Feb. 4 (UP)}.—; Yamashita was convicted of con- rete. Court today refused/goning some 60,000 atrocities b his to stay the banging of Japenese y i. nite ou a wa |" during the conquest of the criminal," Fallippines. It ruled that the doomed “Tiger The court, in a € to 2 epinion, of Malaya” recelved a lege) tria? (written by Chief Justice Harlan F, from the VU. 5. Military Commis-/ Stone Stone, endorsed the theory that the sion which sentenced him at Manila laws of war make a military com- last Dec. 7 and therefore Tefusedt Mander reenonsthie for stroctties opus | at strocki ce {io intervene in the case. committed by his troops. Justices (Gen, Douglas MacArthur, as) Prank Murphy, former U. 8. Higa rf commander, will have the|Commissioner to the Philippines, Bay on the death sentence. and Wiley B. Rutiedge dissented. ee et eta pep ee a, od. _ This is a clipping from ¥ a ‘ 4. wt page 4 of the ¥ me Le - ey Lo A DAILY WORKER aa nn &7 FEB 15 1946 AE VARAACUITA ® WATE