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Show World News Today, . . 1 Elects in Germany r Ci ill I rxa tr.vr.omm can i Base kntt Bassets . I The parliament of the Federal Republic of Weatern Germany : the firat demoeratically-elected German lertsiative body since Adotpb Hitler Mixed power held 1U formal opening eraetna In Bona. -. ' The 445 repreaentatlvea of weatern Germany and Berlin, bitterly , ' denounced by Russia, gathered in th newly-constructe 14,000,000 parliamentary hall to take over moat of the rein of government from th .military commander of th United State, France and Britain. M At last minute caucuses, Theodore Heuaa, 47-year-old head f the Pre Democratic party, waa named federal president. Heuaa, a nautical science profeaeor, rained th position alter a voU af confidence con-fidence by th Christian Democrat. . ! Erich Koehler, one president of th blsonal economic council was named president of the bundestag, or lower houa. Th upper house elected Karl Arnold, minister-president of North Rhia West phalia. as its firat president ...:;..; , . r Substitution of Arnold for Hans Ehard, Bavarian minister-president, waa considered a slap in the face to federal tats and state's rights elements, of which the Bavarian the foreaaeat spokesman, . .... Nationalist Claim Success Th Nationalist defense ministry claimed recapture of severs village from Communist forces driving toward the Canton-Hankow railroad from Hucheng, 1T0 mile north of Canton. The ministry's announcement aaid ground was leuoseied p to a point 20 miles weat of Jucheng. That would place th fighting half way between Jucheng aad th railroad, . Premier Tea Hai-shan flew to Chungking during th day, pre- ,. . iri,M UTnftiyJy plat 4ftlaV Witt tf iMeaMrtar fctWVNnV 0aMTeaUBaa4aasB -sasasestaBsaVf Kai-shek and Yunnan's Gov. La Han. High quarters here think La Is trying to get Chiang to leave th Indo-China border province of Yunnan out of th civil war, which would mean to recognise th independence ha proclaimed aftar his bloodless coup at Kunming Saturday. Noah's Ark Skrs Bant Cold An American expedition searching for Noah's ark aa Mt Ararat tattled freesing weather m one last effort to find the ancient hulk. Dr. Arson J. Smith of Greensboro, N. J, leader of th expedition, offered cash prise to Turkish guides who find any trsos of the vassal which herdsmen reported seeing during past years la a glacier on Ararat Smith aaid he planned to hunt th western alopee until Frt- dsy despite freesing night temperatures and a water ahortaga. U. S. Soldiers Kill Grman On German waa killed and another severely beaten by aa Intoxicated Intoxi-cated group of American Infantrymen aaigned to currant war ma-euvers ma-euvers on the Rhine, U. 8. author! tie reported. Five soldiers of the first division an under arrest pending farther , Investigation of th violence at Mains, a French bob city aa th west bank of th Rhine. i U. S. air force police, who took th soldisra Into custody, aaid a waiter on a docked Rhine boat waa found dead of wounds after ha had been assaulted. Another German waa beaten oa Mains street and a third waa attacked la the railway station. German aad French poUoe called the U. a air fores to help suNhM th soldiers. |