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Improved Machine Guns,
Rifles Developed For Use
By U.S. Army And Air Force
By ELTON C. FAY
Associated Press Military Affairs Reporter
WASHINGTON - (AP) -The army is considering
changing over to ney and better models of two of its
most widely used weapons machine guns and rifles.
The decision isn't easy. And if made, the transition
undoubtedly will be a slow, steady process taking years
instead of a sudden tossing away of existing weapons and
piciung up 01 new ones
In the instance of machinp Guns
the army has hundreds of thou
sands of caliber .30 and .50. Its
rifles, automatics and carbines
number in the millions.
The cost of a shift to new and
better arms is only one factor. It
would mean not only that produc
tion lines for guns would have to
be stopped and new ones set up,
but facilities for entirely new
types of ammunition production,
on mass scale, would have to be
provided.
The army showed experimental
types of the machine guns and ri
fles to President Truman in a dem
onstration at the Aberdeen, Md.,
proving ground, where it also pre
sented for him shows of other new
ordnance materials including
tanks.
It is considering adoption of a
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.60 caliber machine gun appar
ently far faster and harder hitting
than anything used now. Experi
mental types of this gun are not
new. Army ordnance produced the
first ones during World War II for
the air force, then part of the
army. It contemplated their use in
aircraft. Since then improvements
have been made on the experi
mental models and "bugs" r e
moved from their performance so
that now they appear about ready
for production.
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Among the advantages of the .60
caliber machine gun are two di
rectly related to the problem of
modern fast jet planes a high
rate of fire and a velocity which
gets the bullet to the target faster.
These are important to the army
because ground forces must defend
themselves against air attack. The
heavy, fixed type of .50 caliber ma
ll chine gun used by the army has a
II rate of fire of about 450 to 570
rounds per minute. The .60 caliber
gun has a normal rate of 750. At
I Aberdeen, it sprayed bullets like
water from a hose.
I The new gun has another highly
I important feature a develop
ment since its first wartime in-
vention. In a minute, it can be
I converted from a .60 caliber to a
20 millimeter weapon, merely by
unscrewing the smaller size bar-
Irel and putting in the 20 millvne
ter, with no special tools required.
Thus, the gun can be used as a .60
' caliber for such conventional
ground targets as enemy infantry
Ii in the open or changed swiftly to
a caliber more effective against
strafing aircraft or infantry mov-
II ing behind light shielding,
i Moreover, it is fired electrically.
I That means the crew can place
I! the gun, get away from it in case
i the enemy starts pouring in mor
tar or other fire, and fire it by re-
Imote control.
Featherweight Arm Sought
I The lightweight, caliber .30 r I-
fie still is definitely in the experi
mental phase. The goal of the de
signers is to get the weight down
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PROTEST GERMAN GENERALS' VISIT French police act to keep order during a demonstration
in Place De I'Opera protesting the presence of German generals attending the European army con
ferenee in Paris. Demonstrators included Communists and persons who were in German concen
tration camps during the war. The striped coats are worn to resemble the garb worn in concen
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to about seven pounds. This, for a
gun which can be used to fire fully
automatic as well as semi-automatic,
would be remarkably feath
erweight. The most popular World
War II and present weapon of sim
ilar performance is , the BAR,
weighing 17 pounds.
The gun is fed by a 20 round
magazine. It has a stabilizer to
reduce the kick, but, in the dem
onstration at Aberdeen, seemed to
have the tendency of all auto
matic guns to "climb" as the
gun fires. The extreme lightness
many contribute to the trouble of
the muzzle moving up at each of
the automatic shots.
The obvious advantage of t h e
gun is that the infantryman can
have the same firepower with less
weight to tote. Along with the gun
design, ordnance experts are
working , on a new and lighter
weight ammunition for it.
Five Farm Groups
Advise Against
Freezing Prices
By OVID A. MARTIN
WASHINGTON P Five ma
jor national farm organizations
say any government move to
freeze farm prices at "unfair" lev
els would end in food shortages,
black markets and collapse of in
flation conirol measures.
They said in a joint statement
that fanners are ready and willing
to produce abundantly in an effort
to keep prices from going too high.
But to accomplish this, the state
ment said, ianners will need es
sential production materials such
as fertilizers, machinery, gasoline,
insecticides and labor as well as
"equitable" prices.
The organizations are the Amer
ican Farm Bureau federation, the
National Grange, the National
Farmers union, the National Milk
Producers federation and the Na
tional Farmers union, the National
Milk Producers federation and the
National Council of Farmer Coop
era lives.
The group declared organized
agriculture will fi.-jht any move to
change present laws relating to
ceilings on farm commodities.
There has been no official word
the administration will seek a
change. The government is pro
hibited now from placing ceilings
on farm products at less than
their parity prices.
Parity prices are standards for
measuring farm commodities, de
clared by law to be equally fair
to the farmer and those who buy
his products.
Spokesmen said three of the or
ganizations oppose use of govern
ment subsidies to hold down food
prices. They told a reporter they
expected the Truman administra
tion to propose subsidies soon, sim
I ilar to those used duria" World
War II.
Packers Accused Of Plot
To Sell Army Poor Meat
WASHINGTON P) The gov
ernment has charged a New Jer
sey meat packing firm,- its vice
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president and two soldiers with
conspiracy to deliver inferior
meats to the army.
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firm, Ben Grunstein and Sons Co.,
Hoboken, N. J., had "corrupled the
army inspectors" by gifts and
money payments in order to have
them "approve for delivery to the
army large quantities of inferior
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NPA Alters Ban
On Construction
WASHINGTON (,T) The gov.
ernment's restrictions on new, con
struction have been relaxed in one
respect and tightened in another.
The National Production author
ity revised its previous order
concerning new construction t o
permit larger expenditures for al
terations and additions to hotels,
omce duiiuuiks ana loit buildings.
Beginning Monday, such build
lilts may be improved at a cost
that does not exceed 25 cents
per square foot of the occupied
space during a 12-monlh period.
In computing this cost, NPA said,
both actual construction and all
work must be included in the total.
For commercial buildings Gen
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month period.
NPA's amendment provides that,
if partitions made partly or fully
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Communists Sneaking
Into U.S. Via Mexico
LOS ANGELES WP) -An un
determined number of Communists
are "unquestionably getting
across the border from Mexico in
the greatest "wetback" invasion in
history, says H. R. Landon, dis
trict director of immigration and
naturalization.
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Landon said 224,000 aliens were
turned back last year by his agents
in the 200 mile stretch of border
between San Diego, Calif., and
Yuma, Ariz. By comparison, he
said, 1,000 were turned back in
1939 and a like number in 1940.
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