05 Feb 1955
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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1955
Page
1
Elyria hosts its third annual car exhibit starting Monday at the Roll Arena with displays of new and antique cars. See Auto Show Section for details. Also on the Women's Feature Pages today are fashion tips from New York and Paris shows including jewelry, dresses, and outerwear.
A brief note previews two features in today's edition: the special business industry section on the North Baton Telephone Co. and a photo spread titled Elyria At Night by a local amateur photographer in the Week-End Dividend Section.
In Mat L svessserne Ely Village dispute over telephone service, residents report outcomes as Grand Jury considers 50 cases for second degree murder charges. Charlin Amherst notes in Sand Hill Comments column recalling a memorable figure. Local pages list church news, hospital notes, and suburban calendar with entertainment and sports cross-references.
France disclosed four secret Soviet atomic detonations last autumn, raising total Soviet tests to six in a four month span. The blasts occurred between September and November, with one report suggesting a hydrogen bomb. Officials noted Aug 22 and 26 tests had already been public.
Mrs. Chester Swaby aged 46 of Yellow Springs died Friday after an icy road skid near Xenia. Her husband’s car left the road, struck a fence, and threw her from the vehicle, fracturing her neck in Greene County’s fifth auto fatality of 1955.
Cloudy skies in Northeastern Ohio with light snow mixed with sleet or freezing rain this morning gradually changing to rain this afternoon. Highs near 35 to 40, tonight and Sunday lows around 30s, with little temperature change. Friday’s temperature range 10 to 28, precipitation 1 inch in 24 hours ending 4 PM Friday. Humidity varied from 85 percent at 8 AM to 57 percent at 8 PM, sunrise 7:37 AM, sunset 5:56 PM, moonrise 4:43 PM Friday and moonset 6:28 AM Saturday.
American F-86 Sabre jets shot down two Soviet-built MiG-15s west of Korea after they dove on a U S reconnaissance bomber and Sabre escorts. The Air Force said the action occurred over international waters west of Korea and did not immediately confirm whether the MiGs were Soviet or Chinese.
Paris reports President Rene Coty begins search for a successor after the ouster of Premier Mendes France. Mendes France issued eight decrees on anti alcoholism during his final hours in office, a move seen as streamlining tavern laws. Political circles debate his action and potential future impact on his career.
At UN, Russia appeared ready to join British and American planes pursuing a Formosan cease-fire as tensions rose over Formosa and Korea. The 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing faced MiG attacks off Korea’s west coast, with two Soviet aircraft shot down while the others retreated to Communist territory. U.S. officials indicated Moscow’s attitude toward mediation was shifting, while Lodge pressed for a cease-fire arrangement and warned of potential further actions.
Unidentified objects shadowing the U S 8th Fleet in Formosan waters are described by American naval officers as likely Soviet submarines. The report notes heightened tensions around Tach ien Island with Nationalists preparing evacu ations aided by U S Seventh Fleet forces. Bombardments hit Communist positions and ships near Yushan and Yiliangshan as Quemoy hosts 12 American advisers amid reinforced defenses.
Washington reports react to Army Counsellor John Adams sudden resignation effective March 31 amid Army McCarthy fallout. President Stevens publicly rejects resignation rumors while a separate Cleveland dispatch notes brief remarks on McCarthy ally Charvat and a Medina fatal crash near Wadsworth.
Two Detroit men, Andy McCarthy Valeri and Edward M. Hoover, died when a North American Van Corp. truck was struck by a moving passenger train at Route 224 near Greenwich, 20 miles south of Norwalk, as state patrols investigated the fatal collision. The train, reportedly traveling about 80 mph, caused the year’s first local rail fatalities in Huron county. The Peress case and McCarthy hearings influenced political tensions while the Hoover brother was reported dead at his California ranch in a separate update.
Fort Lewis Washington authorities recaptured seven of nine privates who escaped the Fort Lewis guard house. Two remain at large: Young Iver 20 Alderwood Manor Washington and Kenneth R Gill 18 Providence Rhode Island. The escape began when they overpowered an inside guard and fled despite the group’s earlier infractions.
A terse guide describes picking up glass fragments with a damp soap bar and shaving splinters with a knife. It then promotes Chronicle-Telegram classified ads offering cash for items from Afghan to Xylophone, with ad-writer contact and a sample sale of a used chest of drawers.
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