Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1944 — Page 10

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JURY TO DEGIE| "FATE OF SISTERS

Escape Prison.

By NORMAN A. JOHNSON United Press Staff Correspondent DENVER, Colo., Aug. 10.—A federal jury receives today the case of three sisters charged by the government with committing treason by helping two German prisoners of war escape. If found guilty, they could be it Federal Judge J. Foster 3ymes will decide the penalty. They ilso are charged with conspiracy to ~ommit treason and the maximum serialty for that is a fine of $10,000 and two vears imprisonment. Only the judge's charge remained wefore the jury retires to decide the sult or innocence of Mrs. Tsuruko Toots) Wallace, Mrs. Shitara Billie) Tanigoshi and Mrs. Florance (Plo) Otani. all native born i\mericans of Japanese descent, 3ymes drafted his instructions last wening after consulting with the yrosecution and defense in cham-

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They Didn't Testify

The sisters’ lawver, Kenneth Rob3 appointed: by the court, hanged his mind and didn't eall ‘hem to testify. Instead he called ‘heir sister, Mary Shitara, 23, and wn character witnesses. Miss Shitara provided a great 4eal of the background of last summer's romances between JapaneseAmerican evacuees from the Pacific soast ‘and German war prisoners. After being evacuated from the coast, the father of the four sisters. George Shitara, took over a farm near the Trinidad, Colo, prison farm and took his family there to help with the harvest. He also employed war prisoners and, Miss Shitara testified, the prisrs were under little if any superAsion and mingled freely with American civilians. She and her sisters, she testified, became well acquainted with a number of them.

Character Witnesses

The character witnesses were Mrs. Ethel Sherman of Compton, Cal, and Mrs. Wilma Anna Readman of Bloomington, Cal.,, who had known the family well when it lived in California. Mrs. Readman testified that Mrs. Wallace, or “Toots,” had written her that she longed to be in America’s armed forces. Mrs. Readman wrote that she was worried about her soldier husband because she hadn't heard - from him in some time and “Toots” replied: “Those damned Japs better not get him.” Mrs, Sherman testified that they had been respected ih California as loyal American citizens.

MAP-MAKER GINGERY WILL ADDRESS CLUB

Walter G. Gingery, principal of Washington high school and recent designer of a world map that has brought widespread comment from the scientific world, will speak to the Exchange club at its noon luncheon tomorrow at the Claypool hotel. Called a “map-maker's dream” the Gingery map and allied map designing will be speaker's subject.

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