EUGENE D. WILLIAMS 3939 South San Gabriel Blvd., San Gabri- el,; former special assistnat to the Attorney General in charge of the Los Angeles Office, Lands Division, Depart- ment of Justice. Presently, is on loan to IPS from the Jus- tice Department. Previously, for eight years, Mr. Williams had been chief deputy district attorney of Los Angeles County, with his work confined almost exclusively to major criminal prosecutions, including murder and graft cases. He has been designated by Joseph B. Keenan, chief prosecutor, to handle the overall supervision of the presentation of the entire pros- ecution case. FRANK S. TAVENNER, Woodstock, Virginia, former assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia, 1933-40; U.S. Attorney in same district fror 1940 to present; member of the board of trustees of Roanoke College, Salem, VA.; desig- nated by Mr. Keenan as a special assistant to the chief prosecutor. SOLIS HORWITZ, 613 Morrowfield Apartments, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; practiced law in Allegheny County, Pa., from January 1937 to December 1942; entered U.S. Army, December, 1942; studied Japanese language at Yale University and at the Military Intelligence Service School, University of Michigan and Fort Snelllng, Minn. Discharged from Army November, 1945. DEFENSE REQUESTS TRIBUNAL TO DISQUALIFY PHILIPPINE JUDGE FOR PER- SONAL PREJUDICE Defense attorneys for Japanese leaders accused as war criminals today asked the International Military Tribunal for the Far East to hear its motion to disqualify Philippine Justice Delfin Jaranilla from sitting as a member of the Tribunal for reasons of "personal bias." The defense said that the Philippine jurist was prejudiced be- cause he had been required to march in the "Bataan March of Death" as a prisoner of the Japanese. The defense also asked the Tribunal to entertain its motion that a separate trial bo given Koki Hirota, former Prime Minister from March, 1936, to February, 1937, and Foreign Minister under Saito, Oka- da and Konoye. It was contended by the defense that Hirota had never occupied any military or naval office in the Japanese Government and the joining of him in a common trial with a large number of military and naval officials would prejudice his case. In a demurrer which the defense asked it be permitted to file to accompany this motion, defense counsel expressed its desire to demur to 48 counts of the indictment on behalf of Hirota, (more) -10-