Freed Airmen Arrive In U S From Red China Prison
Eleven U S airmen released after 32 months in a Red China jail arrived at Travis Air Force Base California aboard Honolulu bound planes. One man Airman Daniel Schmidt faced separation from his wife, who remarried while he was presumed dead. Dag Hammarskjold welcomed the men and said the U N is seeking remaining POWs. Col Arnold denied espionage confessions.
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Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Red China
Pacific
Daniel Schmidt
Portland
Ore
Una
Schmidt
Air Force
North Korea
Honolulu
Elmer F. Llewellyn
Missoula
Mont
Dag Hammarskjold
United Nations
Hammarskjold
U.N
China
John K. Arnold Jr
Silver Spring
Governors End Meeting in Heated Highway Debate
Governors wrapped up the 47th annual conference in Chicago with political shots and a push for a broader highway program. They endorsed only the objectives of Eisenhower’s plan, avoiding tax or bond specifics, and not urging a special session. Langlie was named chair, with next year in Atlantic City. A Russian farm delegation visited, and Clement endorsed Stevenson for 1956, signaling cross‑party jockeying as campaign dynamics form.
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Chicago
Eisenhower
Congress
Resolutions Committee
Langlie Conference
Washington
Arthur Langlie
Atlantic City
Moscow
Frank Clement
Clement
Adlai Stevenson
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Averell Harriman
New York
Stevenson
J. Bracken Lee
Utah
Harriman
Adlat
Tlatiman
Illinois
Hagerstown
Frederick
King
Commerce
Indus
Atomic power lights entire Arco Idaho town briefly
United States reports first use of atomic energy as sole light and power source for an entire town. On July 17 at Arco near Craters of the Moon, an experimental Argonne station supplied power for about one hour, cutting off conventional supplies. Mayor Ralph Ellison recalled the switch and the town’s surprised calm.
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Atomic Energy
Geneva
United States
Arcp
Idaho
Craters of the Moon National Monument
Argonne Laboratory
Atomic Enery Commission
Arco
Utah Power & Light Co
Author Mann dies in Zurich at 80 after illness
Nobel laureate Thomas Mann died in Cantonal Hospital Zurich following a thrombosis. The German born author aged 80 had returned from a Holland vacation, battled phlebitis and a heart attack, and had been living in Switzerland with his wife Katya and daughter Erika. Mann won the 1929 Nobel Prize and fled Nazi Germany before World War II.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Thomas Mann
Mann
Holland
Wilhelm Loeffler
Germany
Europe
Katya
Erika
Lake
America
F84F jet hits power line and blazes into Albany building
A United States air force pilot, a woman, and a man were injured or killed when a flaming F84F jet fighter struck a power line with a fatal crash in Albany. The plane burst into flames, skimmed a house, and collided with a four unit apartment building causing severe damage.
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Albany
Air Force
Baltimore Dairies Raise Milk Prices in 1950s Move
Baltimore's Western Maryland and Green Spring dairies announced a price hike of half a cent per quart for home delivered milk with regular pasteurized at 24 cents, homogenized and premium at 25 cents. Wholesale milk to stores also rose, as costs and union wage settlements influenced pricing amid long term inflation trends.
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Baltimore
Snokesmen
Maryland
Green Spring
John M. Lescure
Western Maryland Dairy
Teamsters Union
Lescure
Local residents injured in two weather crashes
State Police report two separate Friday accidents caused by rain on routes near Mt. Carmel church. Kenneth Ford 22 treated for forearm laceration, John Brachey 17 knocked unconscious, both from the city area, and John Kline escaped injury as the car slid into a bank and overturned. No charges filed.
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Plymouth
Mt. Carmel Church
Kenneth L. Ford
Pennsylvania Avenue
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Tractor trailer crash injures two on Md. 26 east of Eldersburg
In heavy rain, a westbound pick-up driven by Grassello collided with a Nichols Construction Co. dolly trailer on Md. 26 near Sykesville. The elder Grassello sustained facial lacerations and nose bleeding, was hospitalized at Frederick Memorial. No charges were filed.
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MD. 26
Eldersburg
Grassello
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Weir and Haight
Sykesville
Ronald L. Davis
Grasselles
Nichols Construction Co
Carroll County Holstein Breeders Twilight Meeting
The Carroll County Holstein Breeders Association will hold a twilight meeting next Tuesday evening at the John Teller farm near Taney Town. Africa's Lake Victoria will have its level raised three feet by a new power and irrigation dam, one and a half times the size of Switzerland.
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Carroll County Holstein Breeders Association
John Teller
Taneytown
Africa
Victoria
Switzerland
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Hong Kong
Kelvinator
William S. Hood
West Patrick St
C. E. Cline & Son
East Patrick St
T. V
Middletown
Myersville Road
Allan Shivers
Texas
Dixie
S.s.law
Frederick Tropical Aquarium
Market ST
MOQ
Wed Sun
Photostats
Patrick
Kehne Furn. CO
South Market St
Baltimore Dairies
Better Homes Equip. Co
E. Patrick ST
Admiral
Cont’s U.S
Admiral Corp
Cape
Owen Heat
William S$. Hood Incorporated
Broiler Pack
West
Patrick Street
Francis Scott Key
Youngstown
Aberle
Fittens
Hendrickson
Farmers and Mechanics-Citizens National Bank
the Bank of Friemily Personal Service
Citizens National Bank
Federal Deport Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
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