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Show SERGEANT HAD ! ! ORDERS TO BEAT HP PRISONERS WASHINGTON. July 21 -Efforts to fix responsibility of superior officers for maltreatment of American military prisoners in detention camps and jails in and near Paris will be made by a house war investigating committee next week. Chairman Johnson announced an-nounced tonight that former Sergeant Clarence Ba'l who Is serving a six-rr.onths' six-rr.onths' sentence at Fort Jay, N. Y., for mistreating prisoners, while he was a guard at one of the camps, would 'appear before the committee Monday. "Beat the prisoners or be beat. i yourself," is the choice that Ball sayu was given hiin by superior officers, according to a letter written by Ball ! to Repi eaentative Oaiiinger, Massachusetts, Massa-chusetts, whn turned it over to the committee At prison farm No. 2, where Ball was an "assistant" of Lieutenant Lieu-tenant ' Hard Boiled" Smith, who also is in prison for mistreatment of soi-dlers, soi-dlers, Ball's letter asserts that he and other guards did their "best not to misuse the prisoners, and it did not i i It Smith." I ;;dmit thai I hit prisoners," write nail, "but the orders came from high cr than any sergean:." Ball's letter rucnuoned only Lieutc.n-1 ant Smith, hut the former serger.nt I said, "1 could tell you a lot more if 1 could onlv talk with you." While Ball is before one committ e, 1 Homer S. Cummins, Democratic n;; tlonal chairman, is expected to appear before another that headed by Repre-sentatlve Repre-sentatlve Frear, Wisconsin, charged with inquiry into aviation expenditures expendi-tures Mr. Cummins is to be asked .ibout publicity said to have been j issued by the Democratic committee! in which the proposed rlall of th" Frear committee to the northwest lor investigation of spruce production was relerred to as a "joy Junket" and intimated, according to Republican! committeemen, that the whole inquiry was for partisan purposes. Mr Frear will ask Mr Cummins, Republican members of the committee said, to j substantiate the charges of parti.-an ship. no |