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o 52nd Year Price 10c Tribune EDFORD -f-uli Leawl Wire Unitea Press Full Leased Wire SECOND SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1957 8 Pages M i i i I i 9 Controversial Girard Case Becomes Clouded; Fundamental Facts of Case Recapitulated Tokyo V The controversial I The rase of Americ.a HI 'William i these: Girard hai become so clouded hy emotion both in the United States and Japan that simple recital of facts i. in order. fundamental ones are the firing range. The area is posted, clearly marked in both English and Jap anese. Nobody is supposed to enter. But the villagers began f -a mm m m m m ; www-. . tff hi for a -Ji Jj Growing " m Boy 5 1 t m 4 i I , . . ft fast-growing Saving Account Steady laving pays the way to a better education, a more secure future for 1. A Japanese woman, Mrs. Naka Sakai. is dead. She was killed while gathering used American shell casings and other scrap metal on an American fir-i entering the range and collect ing ranye north of Tokyo. ! ing the scrap years ago when it 2. She was killed by an empty was used by Japanese Army. The shell from a grenade launcher scavenging was highly competi- : fired by Specialist 3-c Girard of tive and the villagers edged 'Ottawa. 111. closer and closer to danger 3. Girard would never have j points. . been on the firing range that j Denies 'Lure' Claim Jan. 30 had not American troops i The Army followed suit and been stationed in Japan at the invitation of the Japanese gov ernment under terms of a mu- i tual defense treaty. No Freedom Move That last point is most im portant. It is a reflection of the peculiar problems that have arisen and will arise so long as the United States plays its dom- I inant role in world affairs and stations its soldiers around the globe. Obscured is the fact that there ; has never been any intent what ! soever to turn Girard free until a trial is held to determine whether his act was deliberate : or accidental. The question has been whether the Japanese courts or the U.S. i military should try him. And I that revolves around the tech- now despite the Girard case. The Japanese contend Girard may have been on duty but he was not performing it. They claim he tossed scrap metal to ward Mrs. Sakal and lured her closer before- he fired. Girard denies it. He says he fired one empty cartridge from a gren ade launcher in an effort to warn her away. That is the point on which the trial will hinge. But the far bigger question involved is how this will affect let the villasers in the area past the future status of American both American and Japanese servicemen stationed abroad in guards. peacetime to defend America They are still doing o right and the free world. nicality of whether or not he any boy or gi SavePwith us. I ! was on duly at the time and i 1.312 Current Dier4 Rare Jiskun County; Federal Savings & Loan Assn. Whfre You Are Paid Te Sax 12 East Main f I whether or not he was perform ing official acts. American military authorities took the position that Girard was on duty. But they waived jurisdiction and agreed, after lengthy nesotiations, to permit Japanese civil courts to try Gir ard. National Pride Hurt Opposition parties in Japan mediately jumped in to use affair as an excuse to attack the whole matter of American E ; bases in Japan. They gained 9 i wide support as a result, for one thing, of statements made in the United States that Japanese sj 1 courts were not fair or com jl'petent. It hurt national pride. Almost ignored has been the Does U.S. Soldier Take Constitutional Rights Overseas? Washington W Does an American soldier take all his U.S. constitutional right with him overseas? That is the basic question raised by the furor over the case of Army Special ist 3C William S. Girard. If the U.S. courts rule that he does, he won't be admitted to many countries, the government says, and the United States will have to close down its vital over seas bases and bring the boys home. If the courts permit interna tional agreements which deny GI Joe his American constitu tional rights, reply attorneys for Girard and some sympathetic congressmen, a dangerous step toward executive dictatorship and watering down of American freedoms will have been taken. Makes Case Important These are the weighty issues which make the Girard case more important than the fate of one young soldier. Girard's lawyers and some congressmen have e x p a n ded their attack on the administra- special Ideal circumstances at tion's decision to turn him over GRAND SAT. DOOR PRIZES! (No purchase necessary to win) SEE AD ON PAGE 2, 1st SECTION, THIS PAPER At LIPPERT'S you will ...those heavei carpets by LEES see... m I. . 9. 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In other words, he stands in the position of the government itself. The principal is responsi ble for the acts of the individ ual." The government contends that neither a soldier nor a civilian of any country has any rights or immunities in a foreign coun try except those given him by the host country. "An American retains when he goes a broad only those rights which a foreign nation express ly grants him," a State Depart ment official said. This is true of diplomats, soldiers, civilian officials or tourists in this country or abroad. Best Deal Possible "A U.S. serviceman sent to a foreign post has only those im munities to the host country's laws as that country specificial iy gives up, voluntarily or by negotiated agreements with the United States," the official said. The U.S. government has made the best deal it could get in win ning exemptions from foreign court jurisdiction over American forces stationed abroad, he said. Its failure to get complete im munity from local prosecution and punishment doesn't consti tute a violation of the U.S. Con titution, he added. This is expected to be a fea ture of any further government argument in the Girard case in federal courts or at projected congressional hearings on the status of forces agreements. Librarians Hold All-Day Conference Community librarians of Jack son county held an all-day con ; ference Tuesday at the Medford ; Public library. Plans were discussed for mak j ing all books held by community j library agencies available to all . Jackson county readers by hav ; ing them all listed in the catalog at headquarters. C o nsideration i was also given to a plan for adop t tion of one night each week as I "library night in Jackson coun ty," as soon as it can be deter mined which night will suit the convenience of the greatest num ber of borrowers. 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