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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1955
Page
6
United Press reports three huge balloons claimed after appearing suddenly in the Midwest Sunday. A fourth balloon was shot down near Fowler Indiana and recovered with two parachutists prompting a dispute over ownership.
The East Coast labor walkout expands with 70,000 more Longshoremen ordered to strike in 33 ports, sparking sympathy actions in Philadelphia Wilmington Boston and Jacksonville. CIO and other unions push parallel actions in Chicago Detroit Pittsburgh and South Bend as federal intervention remains uncertain.
Testimony continues in a six week trial of three men charged with bird smuggling in San Diego. The government finished its rebuttal Monday as seven witnesses testified on Clifford L. Duke Jr.’s reputation. Duke, Victor Buono, and Louis G. Ballard face trial with Donald Helm testifying about actions requested by Duke and Ballard.
Mrs Cecilia C Davis a 78 year old portrait painter and former wife of writer Richard Harding Davis died after a long illness at her summer home in Marion Massachusetts She married Davis in 1899 with Ethel Barrymore as maid of honor and Charles Dana Gibson as usher They were later divorced Services will be held Thursday at St Gabriels Chapel where she wed Davis
Raym ondville Texas area received offers of help as fears of new floods subsided. Forecaster Middleton said a Gulf disturbance breaking up, with scattered rains in the lower Rio Grande Valley the next day. Civil defense warned of possible heavy rains. Red Cross workers began cleanup as flooding receded. Typhoid vaccines were given and insecticides sprayed, while drainage pumped away water from about 909 people. In Tampico Mexico, 800 more were moved as the Panuco River rose, part of a larger refugee halt with 2,000 crowding public buildings.
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