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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1955
Page
10
Chinese Nationalist and Communist jet fighters clashed 70 miles north of the Matsu Islands with four Thunderjets opposing four MIGs. Both sides reported no damage, and the fight lasted about 10 minutes before all Thunderjets returned safely. The incident signals Red air power moving south toward Formosa.
Baltimore police rush to a reported poker game after a woman says her husband is wasting money and starving the family. Officers break up the gathering and arrest six men at the scene. a second call reveals the suspect remains at large.
Senate leader William F Knowland told a University of Virginia audience that a summit of Big Four powers cannot be held without considerable risk. He urged not to barter territory or appease Communists, cautioned against surrender of Quemoy and Matsu, and defended Pacific defenses along the Rocky Mountain line.
A shadowy organizer’s wife sparked a vice raid as officers shut down five card games. Police arrested 25 men after chasing calls to repeat locations. The wife refused to name herself, while Serio suspects her husband was nabbed in the final haul.
Though famed for The Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa also wrote operettas symphonic poems orchestral suites and choral works. He penned an autobiography and many magazine articles in addition to his marches.
In Groesbeck Texas a former mental patient killed Limestone County Sheriff J. Harry Dunlap then fired on pursuing deputies. He retreated into a farm home with a National Guard halftrack lobbing tear gas before a mass assault flushed him out. Dunlap died on scene. Tynes was wounded and hospitalized in critical condition with multiple gunshot and burn injuries. Neighbor Johnny Ray Bentley was also wounded days earlier.
The International Council of Christian Churches plans to send extracts into Iron Curtain countries by balloons. About ten thousand balloons were released near Cham in Bavaria on April 25 1955, within twenty miles of the German Czechoslovak border, with ninety thousand more to follow.
Two polite gunmen bound five victims with neckties and robbed them of 300 dollars in a Bel-Air residence. Toni Barron and Charles Stein confronted the intruders who served drinks before forcing occupants into a closet. Patrolman John W. Hale arrested James Malcolm Griffith, 26, of Artsia, while another suspect fled with the loot.
In 1945 the British government turned over to Dwight D. Eisenhower for his personal use the top floor of Culzean Castle in southwestern Scotland.
A car plowed into a formation of basic trainees marching to KP duty at Lackland Air Force Base before dawn yesterday injuring 29. Nine hospitalized with fractures. others treated for minor injuries. Driver Roger K Simpson cited darkness and mist as factors. authorities said no speeding.
Two French National Railways locomotives reached 200 and 206 mph on a straight Bordeaux Dax stretch on March 28 and 29, 1955. Passengers felt only a slight rolling motion after 180 mph and telegraph poles blurred from view. The runs were experimental.
A single engine light airplane crashed in a pasture three miles west of Fredericksburg. Pilot Lee Harvey 22 of Annandale New Jersey escaped with scratches and bruises. He was low on gas and was en route to Charlottesville to visit friends on the Old Orange Grove Farm owned by Sidney L. Shannon Jr.
About two hundred people attended a memorial service at St Andrews Protestant Cathedral in Singapore for Gen Symonds an American correspondent who was fatally injured during Thursday rioting.
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