From the PARSONS SUN no date shown

Returns to camp

Cpl. Michael Daley, who was a prisoner of the Japs 3 ½ years, has returned to Camp Carson, Colo., to report for further treatment, after spending a 10-day furlough here, visiting his mother Mrs. J. S. Daley, 2421 Main.

His brother, Bernard F. Daley, has received his discharge from the army after serving more than three years as a military police. He was overseas 38 months in the middle-east theater.

Cpl. John Daley, another brother , has returned to the army air field at Victorville, Cal., to report for duty after spending a short furlough here.

Another visitor in the Daley home has been Mrs. J. W. Lansdowne, Charleston, S. C. the former Miss Margaret Daley.

from the PARSONS SUN, no date shown:

DALEY’S PRISON CAMP CHIEF
NOW FACING ATROCITY CHARGE

Tsutomu Shiba, medical captain in the Japanese army, must stand trial on charges of beating and mistreating Pvt. Michael (Mike)Daley, 2421 Main, and ten other Allied war prisoners, it has been learned here through an Associated Press dispatch.

Daley, who was taken prisoner by the Japs on the island of Java early in l942 and not liberated until September, l945, was confined at the Hakodate prison camp, where the alleged atrocities took place in l943 and l944.

Charge Atrocities

The specifications filed by an Allied headquarters legal section with a military tribunal in Tokyo accuse Shiba of permitting members of his medical staff to commit varied atrocities against Daley, one other American and nine British soldiers.

Daley is the son of Mrs. J. S. Daley and at present is in Los Angeles visiting friends. He is on a 90 day furlough and will report May l0 at the Santa Monica, Cal., separation center, where he expects to receive his honorable discharge from the army.

Expects Discharge Soon

Daley, while here on a brief convalescent leave from the Camp Carson, Colo., hospital over the Thanksgiving holidays, never mentioned Shiba by name but did relate having been severely mistreated at the hands of the Hakodate camp staff, it was reported. He has fully recovered, however, and expects to receive his discharge soon after reporting to the separation center.

From the KANSAS CITY STAR March 5, 1945

Tokyo, March 5 (AP)--Tsutomu Shiba, formerly medical captain in the Japanese army, was charged formally Tuesday with beating and mistreating allied war prisoners including two Americans and nine British.

In specifications filed by the allied headquarters legal section with a military tribunal, Shiba also was accused of permitting members of his medical staff to commit varied atrocities at Hakodate prison camp in l943 and l944.

Among those named as victims was Pvt. Michael Daley, Parsons, Kan.

from the KANSAS CITY STAR, Jan 11, 1946

YOKOHAMA, Jan. 11.(AP)--Lieut. Chotaro Furushima, third Japanese prison camp commandant to be convicted of the brutal mistreatment of Americans, nearly wept today as his sentence—life imprisonment—was read. His wife, in the rear of the courtroom, remained impassive.

Furushima, former school teacher and vice-mayor of Funatsu, was acquitted by the trial commission of two specifications alleging that he deprived internees of adequate food. was convicted of brutalities for which the prosecution had sought the death penalty. "The trial was satisfactory." said Furushima’s attorney.

In earlier cases, one camp commandant had been sentenced to death and another to life imprisonment at hard labor. All three sentences are subject to review by Lieut. Gen. C. P. Hall, U.S. Eighth army commandant.

A Japanese captain charged with responsibility of the deaths of four Allied prisoners of war goes on trial Monday or Tuesday—the fourth war crimes defendant in Japan.

Eighth army authorities announced a lengthy indictment against Capt. Haichi Hirate, former commander of the Hakodate prison camp on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido.

Hirate is charged personally with the death of British Pfc. Raymond Suttle of Hadleigh, Suffolk, and of responsibility for the deaths of another British soldier and two Dutch soldiers.