Egypt Recognizes Red China First Arab Nation to Do So
Cairo reports confirm Egypt's government has established diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China, marking the first Arab state to do so. Cairo papers discuss Western arms to Israel and note Chiang Kai-shek's Taiwan seeks to sever relations with Cairo.
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Cairo
Israel
Egypt
Peiping
al Gumbhurriya
Red China
United States
Britain
France
Chinese People’s Republic
China
Taipei
Chiang Kai-shek
Seized Films Ordered Destroyed After Civil Rights Hearing
Senator Olin D Johnston ordered destruction of film negatives seized by a Capitol policeman from Theodore Gaffney a photographer. Gaffney surrendered two negatives as Johnston said no pictures could be taken after the hearing began. The plates were turned to Senate sergeant at arms Joseph C Duke for processing with any violating images to be destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Olin D. Johnston
D-Sc
Capitol
Theodore Gaffney
Johnson
Senate Judiciary Committee
Gaffney
Joseph C. Duke
Senate
Duke
Johnston
Clarence Mitchell
National Assny For the Advancement of Colored People
Mitchell
Roy Wilkins
NAACP
59th Anniversary Special at Schewel Furniture and Buzzella's Shop
Continued on page two notes 59th anniversary specials. Schewel Furniture Co advertises Hollywood beds at 39.59 and spring hat clearance with prices from 1.00 to 5.00. Buzzella's Shop promotes clearance items in similar pricing brackets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Schewel Furniture Co
Buzzella’s
House Committee Denies Ike Long Term Foreign Aid Power
The House Foreign Affairs Committee refused Eisenhower's request for up to 100 million a year for 10 years in long term overseas aid. It also cut by half the 300 million for economic aid, proposing loans or surplus farm goods instead of grants and leaving a 1.9 billion economic aid package under review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Eisenhower
Asia
Middle East
Richards
D-Sc
Eisenhow
Congress
America
House Committee
Rep. Vorys
Rohio
U. S
Yugoslavia
Moderate Oregon primary seen with small turnout
Oregon election officials predicted a moderate turnout for tomorrow's primary despite lively contests in the Democratic presidential and Republican Senate races. Stevenson and Kefauver appear as write-ins for president, while Eisenhower faces no opposition for the Republican delegates.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
Adlai Stevenson
Sen. Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Florida
California
Eisenhower
John C. Veatch II
Colorado
Dan Thornton
David O'Hara
State Election Bureau
Stevenson
Kefauver
Washington
Senate
Wayne
Morse
Interior
Douglas C. McKay
Phil Hitchcock
Hitchcock
McKay
NAACP Sues Arlington County School Board Over Segregation
The NAACP filed a federal suit in Alexandria seeking to halt segregated schools in Arlington County Virginia. Plaintiffs include 14 parents of 22 children. the action accuses the county of denying due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment and seeks an injunction to end segregation.
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Alexandria
Naational Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Arlington County School Board
Edwin C. Brown
Northern
Virginia
Alexandria Federal District Court
T. Edward Rutter
Prince Edward County
U. S. Supreme Court
The
Gray Commission
Gov
Stanley
Richmond
Brown
Arlington
Supreme Court
E. R. Draheim
Rutter
Washington, D. C
Arlington County
Stanley Talks With Gray Commission Over Segregation Session
Gov. Stanley and the Gray Commission executive group met privately in Richmond to weigh developments in the school segregation dispute and weigh a possible special legislature session. Attendees included David Mays Henry Wickham and Judge William Old Segar Gravatt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
Gray Commission
Gov
Stanley
David Mays
Henry Wickham
Commission
Chesterfield County
Wiliam Old
Segar Gravatt
Blackstone
Old
Virginia
General Assembly
Gravatt
Defenders of
Three Convicts Slain in Florida Prison Riot
RAIFORD Fla. Several hundred inmates at the state prison rioted over food. Three convicts were killed and eight wounded. officials initially said one death. Governor Leroy Collins ordered an investigation and National Guard aid was considered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raiford
Fla
Dewitt Sinclair
Leroy Collins
Sinclair
Collins
Adj
Mark Lance
National Guard
Lance
Second Anniversary of School Segregation Ban Marked Nationwide
The second anniversary of the 1954 Supreme Court ruling outlawing school segregation sparked celebrations and protests across the nation. NAACP chapters, religious groups, and civic bodies planned rallies and meetings in cities from New York to Alabama, with figures like Emmett Lee Irwin and Gov. Marvin Griffin among speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
National
Assny For the Advancement of Colored People
White Citizens Councils
Alabama
Birmingham
Selma
Phenix City
Haynesville
New Orleans
Citizens Council
Emmett Lee Irwin
Eastland
D-Miss
Marvin Griffin
Georgia
NAACP
Robert B. Meyner
New Jersey
Joseph H. Jackson
National Baptist Convention
U.S.A
Richard J. Daley
Chicago
Church Federation and
Rabbinical Association
New York City
Autherine Lucy Foster
University of Alabama
Oklahoma City
University
Oklahoma
Singhass elected president of Jaycee-ettes
Mrs. Lester Singhass was elected President of the local Jaycee-ettes at a Lee Jackson Restaurant meeting last night. She will succeed Mrs. Robert Barbour at July installation ceremonies. Other officers elected include Vice President Mrs. Kenneth Cammer Recording Secretary Mrs. William H. Lewis and Treasurer Mrs. Frank Bustler. Board members named were Mrs. Richard Rhodes Mrs. Richard Crisman Mrs. Leonard Newcome Mrs. Tevious Bailey and Mrs. John Reid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Singhass
Jaycee-ettes
Lee- Jackson
Robert Barbour
Kenneth Cammer
William H. Lewis
Frank Bustler
Richard Rhodes
Richard Crisman
Leonard Newcome
Tevious Bailey
John Reid
Hydrogen bomb test delayed at Bikini by bad winds
Unfavorable winds off Bikini prompted a second postponement of the hydrogen bomb test aboard the USS Mt. McKinley for at least two more days.
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MT. Mckinley
Bikini
Northeast Shivers Far West Swelters in Weather Contrasts
Weather across the United States showed sharp contrasts with the Northeast chilly and the Far West hot. Temperatures fell as much as 23 degrees from yesterday with 53 in Atlanta and 34 in Pittsburgh while Los Angeles reached 99 and Yuma hit 109. Rain cooled the upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes as parts of the North Atlantic Coast saw rain and snow flurries.
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Atlantic
New England
West Virginia
Great Lakes
Georgia
Atlanta
Pittsburgh
Burlington
Mount Washington
N. H
Thermal
Calif
Far West
Southwest
Desert
Los Angeles
Yuma
Ariz
Upper
Mississippi Valley
Upper Great Lakes
North Atlantic Coast
O Sullivan Rubber strike unchanged as talks stall
No new developments in the O Sullivan Rubber production workers strike at the Frederick plant since midnight Sunday. Pickets remain posted, rain hampers activity, and sheriff reports no incidents. Company president Catozella says there is no material change and production continues on a curtailed basis with some workers still reporting for duty. The union and management remain apart over money matters and no talks are scheduled.
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O'Sullivan Rubber Corporation
Frederick County
O’sullivan
Vincent A. Catozella
Catozella
Catarella
William Kuehner
Pittsburgh
Kuehner
FBI Nab Last of Brink's Robbery Gang in Dorchester Flat
FBI agents arrested Thomas F. Richardson and James I. Faherty at a Dorchester three story brick tenement, ending a nationwide manhunt for two of the Brink's robbery suspects. Authorities seized $5,009.08 in coins and recovered three pistols. The arrests follow a months long chase near the Brink's waterfront heist.
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FBI
Nab Last of
Brink's Robbery
Boston
Thomas F. Richardson
James I. Faherty
Dorchester
United States
Thomas Ballou
Quincy
Richardson
Faherty
Suffolk County
Brink
Joseph
Specs) O'Keefe
Stanley A. Gusciora
Henry Baker
Adolph
Jazz) Maffie
Joseph F. McGinnis
Vincent Costa
Michael V. Geagan
Anthony Pino
Joseph S. Banfield
Mrs Luce Advised To Remain In U S For Treatment
U S Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, who returned from Rome due to illness, should stay in the United States for about two months of treatment. Doctor says she has chronic enteritis linked to a liver infection and iron deficiency. she received a transfusion and may need more. She is 53 and recently moved from Doctors Hospital to her townhouse.
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New York
U. S
Clare Boothe Luce
Rome
Milton Rosenbluth
Latest spring frost devastates Virginia apple crops see $1.5 million loss
A spring killing frost battered Virginia and nearby areas with lows near 24 degrees. Dr. Walter Hough estimates about 25 percent of the apple crop in Frederick and Clarke Counties and neighboring Jefferson and Berkeley Counties in West Virginia was wiped out, with a projected minimum $1.5 million loss. Peaches suffered similar damage. some orchards report one third losses.
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Walter S. Hough
Winchester Fruit Reesearch Laboratory
New York
Associated Press
Albany
N. Y
Geneva
Hough
West Virginia
Frederick
Clarke
Virginia
Jefferson
Berkeley
W. Va
Mt. Jackson
John Neff
Augusta County
Shenandoah Valley
Blacksburg
City
Frederick County
Winchester
D. K. Russell
Weather and event notes for Winchester area
The forecast calls for rather cloudy skies with scattered showers likely east tonight and a high of 50 to 54 today. Friday looks generally fair and warmer in the afternoon. A rummage sale is planned at the Basement of Sacred Heart Church Friday May 18 noon to 7 pm and Saturday May 19 10 am to 2 pm.
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Winchester
Sacred Heart Church
Schewel Furniture Co
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Ike
Arlington Co. School
Norfolk
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Gray Committee
Singhass
John B. Salling
Texas Rangers
Thomas B. Stanley
Salling
Ft. Blackmore
Berryville
N.Y
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