Chandler Leading Kentucky Governor Race Amid Standoff
A. B. Happy Chandler, former U S Senate member and baseball commissioner nominee, held a lead in the Kentucky governor race over Bert T. Combs as returns favored Chandler. Combs refused to concede, awaiting results from eastern districts while Edwin R. Denney secured the Republican nomination. Chandler urged Democrats to unite for the November contest.
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Louisville
A. B
Happy) Chandler
U. S. Senate
Chandler
Bert T. Combs
Combs
Kentucky
U. S
Earle C. Clements
Senate
Lawrence Wetherby
Alben W. Barkley
Versailles
East Kentucky Mountains
Released Fliers to Leave for Home Today
The Air Force announced 11 American flyers freed by Red China last week will depart Japan at 8 p.m. MST Tuesday for the U S mainland via Hawaii and Midway. Col. John K Arnold Jr and the other men will land at Travis Air Force Base near San Francisco, with further routing to their homes.
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Tokyo
Air Force
China
Japan
U. S
Hawaii
United States
Midway
Alaska
McChord Air Force Base
Tacoma
Wash
John K. Arnold Jr
Travis Air Force Base
San Francisco
Travis
County to Complete Budget Work Today
The Board of County Commissioners expected to finalize the 1955-56 budget for release Tuesday. Final assessed valuation figures from the State Board of Equalization arrived, with total valuation expected near 1954-55 and the tax levy around 42.7 mills.
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Board of County Commissioners
State Board of Equalization
Joseph Lester
Witness says Gallagher beat POW to death in Korea camp
Army court martial testimony recounted Sgt James C. Gallagher allegedly beating a starved U S war prisoner to death for refusing to move. Lloyd W Pate, 23, of Augusta Ga, testified he also heard Gallagher threaten to kill others and brag about brain washing detainees. The 1951 murder occurred in Prison Camp No 5 North Korea.
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New York
U.P
James C. Gallagher
U. S
Lloyd W. Pate
Augusta
Gallagher
Pate
Red
Reds
Camp Gordon
No. 5
North Korea
Eisenhower Highlights Civil Rights Advances by Administration
President Eisenhower asserts the administration has advanced far on civil rights in the last 30 months and credits the Republican Party with fulfilling its 1952 campaign promises. He lauds equal dignity, loyalty to republican principles, and shared credit for progress while noting more work remains.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Val J. Washington
Republican National Committee
Republican Party
Lincoln
Rock Barrages In Inchon Injure Americans In Korea Clash
Multiple American soldiers were wounded in new violence linked to President Rhee's ultimatum. Chaos near Wolmi Do saw 300 Korean demonstrators storm a barricade as tear gas and blank rounds were used by guards. Reports of bayonet incidents could not be confirmed.
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Seoul
Syngman Rhee
Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission
U. S. Army
Wolmi-Do
Inchon Harbor
MacArthur
Inchon
NNSC
South Korea
U. S. 8Th Army
Pusan
Korea
United Nations Command
U. S
Taegu
Kunsan
U.N
Girl, 11, Sought on Colorado Peak by Posse
A posse of more than 50 searched Mt Evans, 14 260 feet high, for Colleen Patton 11 of Clifton Hills Missouri after she wandered from a car with relatives. Sheriff Sacra said the girl wore a gray tweed coat and red pedal pushers and could be near freezing conditions.
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Colorado
Posse
Georgetown
Colo
Mt. Evans
Here
Missouri
Clear Creek County
James Sacra
Colleen Patton
Joe Patton
Clifton Hills
Sacra
Carl Enlow
Jefferson County
Evergreen
Enlow
Denver
Ready mix pie crusts catch on in homes and ads sell easy
A short item notes that housewives mostly still bake pie crust from scratch though ready mixes are appearing. It adds that want ads are a quick money maker for promoting goods and services with an example ad offering a summer home at Echo Lake and a general ad-writer phone line.
Montana Weather: Fair and Cooler then Warmer inland
Montana weather forecast reports east region fair and cooler Tuesday and Wednesday, partly cloudy and slightly warmer with highs 65 to 70 in the extreme north and 70 to 80 in central and southern areas. West region fair with clouds and warmer highs around 70.
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Montana
Atomic Power Must Be Made to Replace Fuels
A US scientist argues atomic power must replace fuels. Geneva talks on freeing 40 Americans stalled again with a secret 24 hour meeting described as friendly. Johnson and Wang Pin nan gave no public progress, future talks to broaden to other practical matters.
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Geneva
United States
Red China
China
U. Alexis Johnson
Wang Pin-nan
Johnson
Wang
U. S
India
Peiping
Formosa
Atomic Energy Sharing Moves at Geneva Conference
The Geneva talks center on making atomic energy a joint heritage for all nations rather than a monopoly. The United States leads in development but is pledging openness, sharing funds, materials, and know how for peaceful use while retaining leverage, with Britain France Russia Canada and others contributing to a broad pool.
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Geneva
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Canada
Four Die and Eighteen Hurt in Carlsbad Bus Crash
Four men from Carlsbad were killed and 18 injured when a miner’s bus collided head on with a gas truck about 3 pm Monday, near Carlsbad. The trucker escaped with minor injuries as the hospital crowded with wounded. The bus carried miners to Potash Co of America for a 4 pm shift and rolled over after striking a dust cloud as it neared the second gasoline tanker. the truck exploded and burned.
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Carlsbad
N. M
Potash Co. of America
G. H. Porter
William MclIlwee
Tom Peacock
K. D. Gough
City Council Adopts Budget Minus Garbage Haul Fund
The Butte City Council on Monday night adopted a final city budget that excludes funding for the garbage and ash removal program. The action leaves the fund without support in the adopted plan, prompting concern among residents and officials alike.
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Butte City Council
Treasury Owes 277 Billions and Odd Pennies Jotted
The Treasury Department reported the national public debt at 277,126,109,640.48 dollars as of August 3. The article notes the odd pennies and cites William Heffelfinger, a long-time Treasury official, explaining bond values and a tiny 2 3 cent discrepancy from 1953. It also mentions a Tennessee bond, Civil War era quirk, and other fiscal oddities. The piece shifts to city finances, outlining a budget tweak increasing the health and sanitation levy and affecting garbage removal funding, with a 2,404-name petition prompting cuts.
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Washington
U. S. Treasury Dept
Treasury
William T. Heffelfinger
The
William Heffelfinger
the Treasury
Heffelfinger
Ivy Baker Priest
State of
Tennessee
Health and Sanitation Fund
Tim J. Sullivan
Beryl Wilson
Francis Kelly
Pat McGee
Mower accident kills worker in Rockwood
In Rockwood Tennessee on Sunday night James Kirby 29 was warned by his mother not to go to work on Monday. He stayed home to sharpen a power mower. A grindstone broke into three pieces and a fragment struck him in the right eye killing him.
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Rockwood
Tenn
James Kirby
Kirby
FBI Joins Hunt for Slayer of Kidnapped Woman
Kansas City police joined the case of Wilma Allen, 34, wife of a local car dealer, who was abducted and found murdered in Johnson County. Her car and scattered clothing suggested a violent struggle, with investigators weighing sex, robbery, or ransom motives as the FBI began assisting.
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Kansas City
Wilma Allen
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Union Station
Blue River
Allen
Yellowstone River Finds Boy's Body Near Last Seen Point
The drowned body of 12-year-old David Gaskell of Ypsilanti, Michigan, was recovered Monday by Yellowstone National Park rangers in Mammoth, Wyoming. Supt. Edmund B. Rogers said the body was found about two miles downstream from the last sighting on July 30.
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Mammoth
Wyo
Michigan
Yellowstone River
Yellowstone National Park Rangers
Ark
Edmund B. Rogers
David Gaskell
Ypsilanti
Mich
Reserves Vanishing in Indian War as Atomic Conference Opens
The 72 nation atoms for peace conference opened with a warning that world energy reserves of coal oil gas and oil shale could be exhausted in under a century if consumption keeps rising. Dr Homi J. Bhabha urged rapid development of atomic heating and power noting hydroelectric limits and predicting many atomic plants globally within a decade.
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Homi J. Bhabha
United Nations
India
Atomic Energy Project
Privately Drawn Reactor Projects Win Federal Approval
The United States government approved two privately drafted atomic reactor projects by Detroit Edison Co and the Nuclear Power Group led by Commonwealth Edison. The AEC hailed them as providing an acceptable basis for negotiations under the power demonstration reactor program aimed at accelerating nuclear power development. The announcement coincided with the UN Atomic Energy Conference in Geneva and followed Russia’s display of a 5,000 kilowatt facility. The U.S. is building a 60,000 kilowatt plant at Shippingport, Pennsylvania.
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Washington
Detroit Edison Co. and Associates
Nuclear Power Group
Commonwealth Edison Co
Chicago
John von Neumann
Atomic Research Commission
AEC
Geneva
Russia
U. S
United States
Shippingport
Girl Stowaway Aboard Canadian Destroyer Is Arraigned
A 16 year old girl stowaway on the Canadian destroyer Athabaskan was arraigned in Los Angeles on delinquency charges after remaining aboard the ship for eight days. Held in juvenile hall on $500 bail, she asked to see an uncle in San Francisco and perhaps visit the mainland while staying in the United States. The case moves to Federal Court for a full hearing next Monday. authorities plan to send her back to Hawaii to live with her parents in Hilo.
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U.S
Los Angeles
Hawaii
Her Majesty’s Canadian Navy
Joycelyn Joan Pilapil
U. S.S
Theodore Hocke
United States
U. S
Joycelyn
Athabaskan
San Francisco
Hocke
Long Beach
Cmdr
Charles Richardson
Halifax
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