Memorial Day Tributes Across Nation Include Eisenhower
President Eisenhower led memorial ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery placing a wreath at the Unknown Soldier tomb and saluting taps as churches opened for services. In New York a 100000 strong crowd watched parades of veterans, while conflicts abroad paused for the day. A Bennington disaster memorial honored 100 dead sailors. Police in Baltimore report 28 year old Gilbert Mack leaped from a second story window to dodge arrest on a wife beating charge.
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Associated Press
Eisenhower
Arlington National Cemetery
Chuuches
Bennington
Quonget Point
William F. Raborn
New York
Riverside Drive
Bronx
Arlington
Charles S. Thomas
Thomas
Baltimore
Gilbert Mack
Franklin Square Hospital
Memorial Day events bring lighter traffic and local incidents
Memorial Day activities drew about 2000 attendees at the Fair Grounds for midget auto racing and a Joie-Chitwood show with a Frederick High School band, as police reported light traffic and one minor injury from a boy who fell from a car. The South End Civic Association sponsored the events amid ideal bass fishing conditions on Potomac streams and warm 87 degree weather with possible late afternoon storms. In Bel Air two boys, 12 and 10, were injured crossing a road after a halted school bus. the driver, 56, was charged with failing to stop. A Nacional Airlines crash killed 18 Brazilians near Belo Horizonte.
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Mt. Carmel Church
U. S. 40
Fair Grounds
Chitwood
Frederick
South End
Bel Air
Here
David H Htubesch
Thomas
Rallsten
John Chackness
Rescue Party Loosens Strain to Aid Injured Mountaineer
In Fairbanks Alaska a eight man rescue team using a sled as a stretcher lifted George Argus a 25 year old Brooklyn GI injured in an 11 000 foot tumble from Mt McKinley. He was found alive and well in a wind swept tent after 15 days alone. One rescuer died in the fall. The team carried and hoisted the sled down the mountain following footprints to the safer lower trail. They hope a helicopter can lift Argus tomorrow morning from the 5 000 foot level where the craft can operate safely. The crew reports a long ascent and careful path finding to avoid crevasses.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
George Argus
Mt. McKinley
Hhis
Argus
Pariy
Essemely
McKeldin Predicts Honest Effort to Build Better World
The speaker asserts that while full success is unlikely, an honest effort to create a better world will generate a generation of progress and improvement. The quote emphasizes perseverance and optimistic social change.
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McKeldin
McKeldin Speaks on Warless World at Lincoln College
Maryland Governor McKeldin addressed Lincoln College graduates urging a world organized to establish equal justice under law to end war. He called for good citizenship and mercy saying the next generation will either be great or perish and expressed strong confidence in the nation's future.
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Lincoln, IW
Gov. McKeldin
Maryland
Lincoln College
McKeldin
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Nacional Air Line
Belo Horizonte
Fone
Lyons
Compion
Pomery Betholi
Bobo Newsom
Tune Wat Clair
Betholine
ONS
Lincoln
Pearre
Leonard
Routzahn & Sons
S. Market St
Markell & Ford
South Carroll St
Bassing Yoors
U. A. Lough & Son
Market St
Seiberling
Near- Seiberling
United States
Melvin M. Engle
North Carroll St
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