Germany Debates Postwar Rearming and Forces
A Western Europe defense debate questions if Germany remains militarily impotent while integrated in the anti Soviet system. Eastern Berlin’s Social Democratic paper warns of a 360,000 strong People’s Army. Soviet and Western press cite German police and troops in zones, while Allies contest totals.
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Reich
Sozialdemokrat
Socialist Democratic Party
Berlin
Teepliche
Rundschau
Bachelor Wins Fight to Recover 54000 in Arkansas Supreme Court
Antionus Eibler of Missouri won in the Arkansas Supreme Court to recover 54000 from former neighbors the Bakers. The court affirmed a lower court judgment finding the money was not a gift but owed to Eibler, despite the Bakers’ claim it came as a gift from the deceased Charles Bibler. The ruling described the Bakers as elderly, wealthy recluses who aided the siblings before Charles’ death.
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Little Rock
Missouri
Arkansas Supreme Court
Antonius Eibler
Ludlow
Lawren Baker
Fibler
Charles
Robert A. Lefjar
Pulaski
Frank Dodge
Bakers
Charles Bibler
Antonius
Supreme Court
Wiblers
Debated policy split over German disarmament and rearmament
The article discusses a clash between political and military views on whether Germany should be rearmed for peace. It notes French insistence on disarmament and military arguments that Germany would be a strong defender if attacked, plus the U.S. Bureau of Mines estimate of zinc and lead deposits in Missouri and Oklahoma totaling 66,100,040 tons.
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Germany
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Missouri
Oklahoma
Fires Kill Two in Arkansas Weekender Blazes
An Arkansas weekend of fires killed two people and damaged several businesses. Army recruit Jewell D. Brady, 20, of Bogalusa, died after a fire at Camp Chaffee on Saturday night. Miss Minnie Hackney, about 60, died when flames consumed her Carlisle area farmhouse on Saturday. Firefighters battled multiple blazes on Fort Smith’s main street for over two hours and later six hours at Smackover, destroying homes and several shops including Doc Miller's studio and Lamon's flower shop.
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Arkansas
Jewell D. Brady
Bogalusa
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Minnie Hackney
Carlisle
Fort Smith
Doc Miller
Lamon
Raymond Hartzog
Smackover
William Alspaugh
Alspaugh
Man Held for Slaying Childhood Sweetheart in Tavern
Ralph Coolack of Whippany New Jersey, 35, is charged with killing his childhood sweetheart and her husband in a tavern after she jilted him post sending $1500 while he served in the army. He allegedly confessed to the double murder and wounded the bartender who tried to intervene in the barroom incident.
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Whippany
N. J
Ralph Coolack
Coolack
Killig Arthur Poole
Trene
Homer Luhman
Luhamn
Cooack
Corlack
Pool
Morristown
WN. J
College Youth Held in Connection With Death
Pine Bluff dispatch reports a Monticello A and M college student was held on an open charge in a fatal crash near Pine Bluff. Miss Elmer ean Fikes, 19, also a Monticello student, died when the car overturned in a ditch near Fort ce. the driver, Smith, released after booking and ordered to appear Wednesday for further proceedings. Three other Monticello students were uninjured after the dance party.
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Pine Bluff
Monticello A
M. College
Elmer Ean Fikes
Forytce
Smith
Henry Smith
Ed Coward
Here
Highway 81
Monticello
Missing Students Searched After Everglades Trip
St Theresa Catholic high of Coral Gables students Dee Strong Dick Houghton A J Rourke Graham Tyson James Briggs and Bob Solty failed to return from an Everglades hunting trip. Their car was found near the Tarniani trail 40 mile bend. Search efforts continue into the swampy Everglades to locate the youths and determine their fate.
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Minami
Evis
College student confesses hammer slaying in Kentucky pact
Franklin Slay, 29, a Griffin Indiana native, told detectives he killed his 16 year old sweetheart Mary Harmon with a hammer near Hopkinsville Kentucky after a planned murder suicide pact. He said his nerve failed as he stood on a bridge ready to leap, and an autopsy was scheduled.
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Je Langville
Ind
Franklin Thomas Slay
Griffin
Mary Elien Harmon
Hopkinsville
Here
Slay
Miss Harmon
Florida
University of Florida
Maury
Conference of PMA Underway In Memphis
Memphis Tenn Dec 6 state and national PMA leaders gather for the annual working conference on production and marketing. A special session is planned to discuss cotton acreage allotments as part of the five day meetings led by PMA Administrator Ralph Trigg and prompted by recent quota actions by Agriculture Secretary Brannan setting quotas at 21,000,000 bales.
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Memphis
Tenn
PMA
Ralph
Trigg
Truman Drafting Three Important Messages
President Truman in Key West to draft three messages to Congress the state of the union budget and the economic message. Vice President Steelman Murphy and Elsey accompany to compile written suggestions from cabinet and officials with Clark Clifford. Truman swims and rests while reporters note his health. Scientists estimate housefly progeny could reach vast numbers in six months as trees shade ground.
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Key West
Fla
Truman
Todiag
Congress
Jom R. Steelman
Washington
Charlie A Ss. Murphy
White House
George Elsey
Trueman
Clark M. Clifford
Gage
Ross
Rising Complaint Crescendo Spotlighted in Dearing Mention
Brannan will address the national group tomorrow. A Knox T. Watchinson speech opened the first day of the program.
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Girald L. Dearing
Brannan
Knox T. Watchinson
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