Show World News Today 19 Top lop Level Nazis Sentenced To Prison for War Crimes Compile Complied From Chicago I If Ir serfs Xen DP OP AP anti anil LOS INS Rt Reports Nineteen high Nazis found guilty by an American court of helping helping helping help help- ing Hitler's horror program were sentenced in to jail terms ranging from four to 25 years Standing in the same room where Hermann Goering and other top Nazi leaders were convicted nearly three years ago the 19 defendants defendants defendants de de- de- de heard themselves sentenced for crimes varying from aggression aggression ag ng- ag- ag to brutality and murder G Gottlob Berger lieutenant general in the notorious SS or elite guard suard drew the heaviest term term term-an an aggregate of or 25 years Best known of the 19 Baron Ernst Von got seven years He Heis Heis Heis is a former envoy to the Vatican and former state secretary of the German foreign ministry Each defendant will receive a n. reduction of sentence equal to the time he has spent in jail jail about about four years Reading of the verdicts rang down the curtain on the last of the thelong thelong thelong long series of war crimes by American courts In all aU 1558 persons have ha been convicted of war crimes in the U. U S S. zone of Germany Additional hundreds were found guilty by the British French and Russians Chinese Recapture Island Chinese government forces recaptured 50 SO miles east of amid some indications it had lost the civil war and surrendered to the Communists At the the- same time the government apparently had lost the Yangtze river island of 70 miles southwest of Nan Nan- I king to the Ute Reds The China puzzle was complex But this seemed apparent to trained observers observer observers Nationalist Nationalist China was breaking up into separate military and political parts parLe The Communist radio in fn announced formal peace talks had started after 12 days of preliminary work In effect that seemed to mean to observers here that the government negotiators had agreed to the eight points laid down by the Reds The They amount to virtual surrender i Vote to End Strike London stevedores voted voled to end their four-day four wildcat strike but an employers' employers lockout of sympathy strikers threatened new complications Union officials nevertheless predicted early settlement of the lockout and an end to the strike strike- that idled some men on the London docks tied lied up ships and imperiled both Britain's food rations and export drive Greeks Weather Cabinet Crisis The fourth Greek cabinet crisis in two years was weathered successfully when a new government was sworn in before King Paul Headed by year old it had the same lineup as the cabinet that resigned two days ago o except that m minister nister without portfolio Markezinis and two other members of his new new party were dropped Britain Asks More Greek Aid Britain has asked the United Stat States es to increase its military aid to Greece to crush the Greek Communist rebellion A foreign office spokesman the British request in answering questions at a daily news conference He said the American American Amer Amer- r ican state department has not yet given its considered views on the question and so the matter remained open |