Joyfully Satisfying Appetites Is Released Airmen In Tokyo
Eleven U S airmen freed from Communist prisons arrived at Tachikawa base in Tokyo after 30 months in Red China jails and a Hong Kong release. They spoke of grim questioning and said their B29 was shot down near Korea in January 1953. Col John Knox Arnold Jr and crew were to give a fuller account at a Hong Kong news briefing.
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Tachikawa Air Air Base
Manila
Hong Kong
John Knox Arnold Jr
Silver Spring
Far East Air Forces Headquarters
Arnold
Red China
China
Maj
Ralph Bryant
Feaf Public Information
John Knox Arnold, Jr
Silver Springs
U. S
Clark Field
William L. Lee
U. S. 13Th Air Force
Tokyo
Quotas Needed to Protect Cotton Textile Industry
House Republican Leader Martin urged import quotas on cotton textiles if surplus U S cotton is sold abroad at low prices. He warned domestic mills would struggle against cheap foreign finished goods, especially from Japan, if raw cotton prices drop. New England lawmakers echoed the concern after a White House briefing.
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Washington
Japan
Martin
New England
Congress
White House
Polio Not Rampant In Boston
Health officials urged parents to delay visits to Boston for children while federal reports claim polio is epidemic. Boston reports 271 polio cases this year, mainly among children and teens, with a normal ratio of paralytic to nonparalytic cases.
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Boston
Joseph Reardon
Massachusetts Public Health Department
Reardon
John H. Cauley
New England
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Sales Up At Weed Market Across Carolinas
The AP notes slight price fluctuations on flue cured tobacco in North and South Carolina markets. First day sales totaled 8.89 million pounds with average prices around 52.57 and 57.14 per hundred, much going to the Flue-Cured Stabilization Corp under loan programs amid an argument over market health. NC Gov Luther wedge called the situation one of the era’s best suited to a reduction in acreage.
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Associated Press
Carolinas
North Carolina Border Belt
South Carolina
Federal State Market News Service
North Carolina
Carolina
Comenodity Credit Corp
Lutherwedge
Charlotte Bus Firm Granted Hike In Fares
The Utilities Commission authorized Charlotte City Coach Line to raise fares to 15 cents for adults or four tokens for 50 cents. School children keep four tokens for 25 cents or a 10 cent single ride. The move aims to eliminate operating deficits and reach a reasonable operating ratio.
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Raleigh
the Utilities Commission
Charlotte City Coach Line, Inc
Compan
Bus Company
Charlotte
City Bus System
Duke Power Co
Democrats Challenge Ike To Muster Backing
Senate Democrats urged President Eisenhower to secure Republican backing for his domestic programs, urging action on school construction health highway and water resources. Eisenhower signaled a possible highway special session but noted no decision while Congress adjourned. Mundt and Kerr pressed for stronger partisan support, alarms over Idaho Power dam projects and praise for bipartisan foreign policy.
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Washington
Senate
Democrats
Eisenhower
Congress
Sen
Kerr
D-Okla
Monroney
Humphrey
D-Minn
Bulganin Keeps Door Open to Ike Disarmament Talks
In Moscow Bulganin says the Soviet Union will study Eisenhower’s plan for information exchange and mutual aerial inspection while preferring its own. He notes the plan remains under consideration and seeks closer positions to reach agreement. Tsitsin urges broader East West scientific exchange despite past Lysenko era limits.
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Bulganin
Eisenhower
Supreme Soviet
Soviet Russia
Eissenhower
Soviet Union
United States
Geneva
Nikolai V. Tsitsin
Tsitsin
Trofim Lysenko
Kremlin
New Hampshire OKs State Sweepstakes Bill
Gov. Lane Dwinell expected to sign a bill creating a two million dollar state sweepstakes tied to horse racing at Rockingham Park Salem. The measure, passed by both houses, would run two annual races under the State Racing Commission with tickets at five dollars and a top prize of twenty five thousand dollars. Opponents termed it a damned bill.
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Concord
N. H
Lane Dwinell
New Hampshire
Rockingham Park
Salem
Massachusetts
House
Senate
Dwinell
Laurier A. Lamontagne
Berlin
Benjamin C. Adams
Derry
State Racing Commission
Laurence M. Pickett
Keene
Crippled Eagle Falls 30 Perish In Missouri Plane Crash
A Convair airliner with 30 aboard crashed near Fort Leonard Wood Missouri after the pilot attempted an emergency landing. Captain Hugh Barron previously saved 40 lives in a November incident. Eyewitnesses described flames and a wing detaching as the aircraft went down near Lieb er Heights and Forney Airport. The dead include eight women two children and a priest Reverend George L Krock. Investigators offered no cause while the wreckage smoldered hours after the disaster.
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Rene J. Cappon
FT. Leonard. Wood, Mo
American Airlines
Hie
A. J. Brewster
Ft. Leonard Wood
Post Airport
Hugh Barron
Tulsa
Okla
Forney
Lieber Heights
Beverly Streeter
Wac
Asbury Park
N. J
Army
Forney Field
George L. Krock
Maryknoll
N. Y
Barron
Chicago
Midway Airport
Glenview Naval Air Station
Fort Leonard Wood
Airlines
Air Force
Senators Attack FPC Action Over Hell's Canyon Dams
Democratic senators assail the Federal Power Commission for approving a privately financed hydroelectric project in Hell's Canyon. Idaho Power Co. would be granted authority to build three dams flooding a Snake River site on the Idaho Oregon border. Public power advocates urge a federal project instead.
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Washington
Federal Power Commission
Hell's Canyon
Commission
Idaho Power Co
Snake River
Idaho
Oregon
Congress
Sen
Kerr
D-Okla
Magnusen
D-Wash
Aumphrey
D-Minn
Eisenhower plans new disarmament proposals amid talks with Bulganin
President Eisenhower said a Western backed comprehensive inspection scheme and Russia's check point plan could be adopted in a package. He noted Bulganin rejected trading military blueprints and aerial surveys, while stressing no current rush for a Far East summit.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
Bulganin
Soviet Union
Geneva
Red China
U. S
United Nations
North Korea
Supreme Soviet
Hurricane Connie Skirts Leeward Islands At 125 MPH
Connie strengthened to a dangerous hurricane with winds of 125 mph moving toward the Leeward Islands. Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands were placed on alert as warnings were issued for Barbuda Saba and Antigua with expectations of higher winds and tides. The San Juan station noted the center near 18.3 N 57.2 W about 325 miles east northeast of Antigua moving west to west northwest at 17 mph.
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Fila
Connie
Leeward Islands
Puerto Rico
Weather Bureau
Leeward
Barbuda
Saba
Antigua
Virgin Islands
San Juan
Takalla Enenna
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