Allies Seek To
Standardize Arms
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LONDON, (/P)—Britain, the Un
a ited States and Canada announced
today a plan for standardizing
their arms and military training.
The program is aimed at cor
recting and eliminating technical
differences which interfered with
easy cooperation of the three
powers in two world wars.
Its purpose is to permit swift
integration of their men and arms
into a smoothly-functioning mili
tary machine in event of another
international conflict.
Leftist forces in Britain op-1
posed this cooperation, and i n 1
parliamentary debates called the
move towards arms standardiza- j
tion an aggressive weapon aimed 1
at Soviet Russia.
In connection with the stan
dardization studies there have1
been frequent exchanges of mili
tary personnel between the two
nations on operational levels.
American pilots have been as
signed to fly and study Britain’s
jet bombers. At the same time
British and Canadian officers
have worked in developing and
flying many American planes.
Similar exchanges have been
made in the other branches of the
armed services.
“These arrangements will in
sure that in time of necessity
■'I there will be no material or tech
nical obstacles to full cooperation
among the armed forces con
cerned and the greatest possible
economy in the use of combined
resources ad effort will be ob
tained,” the ministry of defense
said.
It added that “no treaty, execu
tive agreement or contractual ob
* ligation has been entered into by
the participating nations.”
The three nations have been ]
Sentence Marshal 1
Von Manstein
To 18 Years
i
HAMBURG, UP) — A British
military court today sentenced |
former Field Marshal Erich von
Manstein to 18 years imprisonment
for atrocities against Poles and
Russians committed by German
troops during the war.
Manstein, last of Hitler’s gen
erals to be tried by the victorious
Allies, declined to plead for mercy, j
Mastein was found guilty on
nine specific charges and was ac
quitted on eight other counts. All
grew out of alleged atrocities by
German troops under his com-!
nrrand during the Nazi invasion of i
Poland and Russia.
The decision to try the German
field marshal after such a lengthy
imprisonment had aroused much
controversy in Britain. Wartime
Prime Minister Winston Church
ill was among the prominent peo
ple who subscribed to a fund to
provide English counsel to defend
him.
Three other German war lead
ers were also to have been tried
by the British. Rut field marshal
Walter von Brauchitsch died in
captivity, and British army doc
tors ruled that field marshal Gerd
von Rundstedt and Col. Gen.
Adolf Strauss were unfit to stand
trial. They were released.
Manstein wa sthe 938th German
to be tried by British military
courts for war crimes and had
been in captivity for more than
four years before the British
brought him to trial. The British
have announced Manstein’s trial
ends war crimes prosecutions.
examining the standardization
problem since 1947.
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CHRISTMAS CARDS AND WRAPPINGS '
CIO Union Hostile;
AFL Seaman Quits
SEATTLE, UP) — A bitter dis
pute over jurisdiction of Marine
Steward personnel grew more
tense Friday as an American Fed
eration of Labor unionist quit a
ship which hired him only the day
before.
Marvin L. Lantz, who had ship
ped on the Alaska Steamship com
pany’s Coastal Monarch, told a
national labor relations board
hearing that the reception he re
ceived aboard ship from a mem
ber of a rival union was “extreme
ly hostile.”
The remainder of the ships
steward department belongs to the
national union of marine cooks
and stewards, CIO affiliate, which
has the contract with the steam
ship company.
Lantz was one of four members
of the AFL Pacific Marine Stew
ards union which were employed
Wednesday by the company. The
other three were hired for the S.
S. Denali, which did not arrive in
port until late Thursday.
Waterfront observers were anx
iously awaiting develop m e n t s
j aboard that vessel.
During cross-examination, Ed
ward G. Osbrin of Bogle, Bogle
and Gates, company counsel, said
nont of the foud had been dis
patched from the AFL hall.
All had been hired as result of
individual applications they had
made to the company, in accord
ance wit ha company statement is
sued three weeks ago, he said.
The statement was made at the
start of an NLRB hearing on
charges of unfair labor practices
against the CIO union and ship
ping companies, based on allega
tions made by the AFL union.
The hearing has been recessed
by trial examiner Robert L. Piper
until January 4.
SALT LAKE CITY. (/Pi — The
weather man played a joke on
Utah today. Hill Field was buried
under 18 inches of snow. Thirty
five miles to the south, at Salt
Lake City, the airport four miles
west of town got onv one inch and
the city even less.
Some rain fell in Salt Lake City.
The weather man explained that
warm air pockets held fast by
nearby mountains kept the snow
away from Utah’s capital.
Parole 60 German
War Prisoners
FRANKFURT, Germany, (/Pi—
The U. S. army announced today
that 60 convicted German war
criminals will be released on pa
role this week. Twenty-seven will
go free tomorrow, 33 the next day.
A Landsberg prison official said
the sentences of the men to be pa
roled normally would have ex
pired between now and next June
30.
They are being released under
a plan whereby prisoners are cred
ited with five days off for good
behavior for every month they
have served, he said.
The official, who asked that his
name not be used, said five of
those being released were sentenc- !
ed in war crime trials held at
Nurenberg.
1 *
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jensen of
i the CAA and their two children
| who have been here for the past
two years have been transferred
to Northway, Alaska.
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Judge Denies
Bid For Mistrial In
Bridges* Case
SAN FRANCISCO, (A** — The
perjury trial of longshore leader
Harry Bridges recessed Saturday
for the weekend after the defense
made an unsuccessful bid for mis
trial and another have chief pros
ecutor F. Joseph Donahue citerf
for misconduct.
The motions were made, ancl
denied, after federal judge George
B. Harris agreed with defense at
torney Vincent Hallinan that tes
timony communists once discussed
possible expulsion of Bridges from
the party would be hearsay and
thus not admissible as evidence.
The testimony was offered by
Paul Crouch, a professed ex-com
munist.
Hallinan based his motions on
the charge that Donahue’s words
on the alleged “expulsion” move
were intended to reach jurors
through newspapers.
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