U. S. Asks 100,000
Be Named As
War Criminals
NUERNBERG, Dec. 17— (/P) —
American prosecutors called on
the International Military Tri
bunal to convict as war criminals
the hundred thousand members of
the Nazi leadership corps, de
scribed as “the brain, backbone
and directing arm of the Nazi
party.”
Opening the new phase of the
war crimes trial twenty-one top
Hitlerite leaders, the prosecution
charged that thousands of mem
bers of such once powerful or
ganizations of leadership in Corps
Elite Guard, Storm Troops, Reich
Cabinet, Gestapo, and German
High Command, should also be
declared guilty as war criminals.
The jails of the Allied powers
in occupied Germany are filled
with thousands of such minor
Nazis. Earlier the prosecution dis
closed systematic plans for strip
ping the food of Russia would
have wiped out the populations of
Moscow and Stalingrad, if those
cities had been conquered.
Record-Breaking
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Plane Crashes
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—(^P>—
The Army's record breaking su
perplane XB'2, known as the Mix
master, crashed on nearby Oxen
Hill, Md„ without loss of life or
injury. The crew and three offi
cers were making a routine flight
around Washington and took
to parachutes and landed safely.
Part of the ship dropped into
a churchyard, and the fuselage
crashed a mile away. The War De
partment said the cause couldn't
be determined immediately.
The Douglas army bomber, pro
pelled by twin propellors in the
tail flew eastward across the
country on December eighth in
five hours seventeen minutes.
Moscow Cordial
At Foreign
Minister’s Meeting
MOSCOW, Dec. 17—f/P)—In an
atmosphere of cordiality, enhanc
ed by an informal preliminary
meeting last night, the Foreign
Ministers of the Soviet Union,
United States, and Britain turned
today to the serious business of
bringing the countries closer to
gether in the interests of world
peace.
The British Embassy spokesman
said the foreign ministers would
meet a second time at four p.m.
Observers expected they would
embark at once on the discussion
of the momentous issues which
brought them together, including
the vital question of the interna
tional control of atomic energy.
CROYDEN, England — Royal
Engineers descended into a 43-foot
crater Sunday to remove a two
ton German bomb loaded with
3000 pounds of TNT. The unex
ploded bomb was recently discov
ered beneath a lumber yard, five
years after it was dropped on
England.
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