Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 248, Decatur, Adams County, 20 October 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV No. 248.

SPIRITUAL fcyPHASIS QPENS SUNDAY ‘ >M |BHHbP* t% Rev. Gerald Ge rig ■> Rev. Virgil W. Sexton

Nasser Ready For Talks On Suez Dispute Egyptian President Willing To Discuss Settlement On Suez 7 (EDITORS NOTE: Miss Pat Herman, a freelance correspondent, has obtained an exclusive interview with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. In the following dispatch written for the United Press, she says Nasser is willing to meet with the chiefs of state of France and Britain to discuss a Suez settlement.) By PAT HERMAN (Written For The Unltde Press) CAIRO (UP)—President Gamal Abdel Nasser said Friday he would be willing to go to Geneyg to meet British prime minister Anthony Eden and French premier Guy Nollet if he thought the talks would aehieve • peaceful settlement of the Sues Canal dispute. -—~ Nasser indicated, in an Interview with this correspondent at Tahirs Palace, that he would negotiate personally only with the chiefs of state of Britain and France, and not with their foreign ministers. He revealed that Egyptian-spon-sored talks on Suez would be held in Geneva during the week of Oct. 28, although the exact date has not yet been set. Nasser said Egypt is prepared to present certain proposals on canal tolls at the projected meeting, but he firmly rejected any idea of dealing solely with the Sues Canal users association set up by the West to colect canal tolls,' ■'We are ready to cooperate and negotiate with all users of the canal and not just these 18 powers," he declared. Chainsmoking cigarets and sipping soft drinks and coffee, Nasser talked for two hours, gay and serious by tuns. He said an agremeeftt to negotiate with the users association would exclude such nations as Ceylon and India which do not belong to it. Nasser, who had just completed a five hour’s conference with India's roving Ambassador V. K. Krishna Menon on the Suez crisis, said any payment of shipping tolls of the association will be considered a hostile act towards Egypt. He said Egypt is willing to revise the 1888 Treaty governing canal operations to guarantee freedom of navigation and is willing to consult* user nations on a fixed ceiling for canal tolls. But he declined to reveal any other proposals Egypt might make for a settlement The Egyptian president, dressed nattily in a lightweight gray suit, white shirt and blue polka • dot tie, turned aside a number of questions with a brief “no comment." U. S. Policy Hit The president was vehement in denouncing United States foreign policy for it support of Israel and then in becking the “colonial powers.’ “At this point, the United States cannot seem to differentiate between Communism and nationalism,” he said.* And ho strenuously denied Egypt was going Communist because of a lack of Western support. “Ours is a policy of non-align-ment and independence of the big powers,” he said. Ho added that he io planning a trip to Moocow "somq time toon.” '• and also would like te tfrft the . United states. . 4 A*- -• '■ ‘ •" • " t

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Spiritual Emphasis Week Opens Sunday Week Os Services To Open Sunday Night Spiritual Emphasis week services, sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur, will open at. the First Methodist church Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Services will continue each night ' next week at 7:30 o’clock, with no service Saturday, and the closing . meeting will be held Sunday eve- , nlng, Oct 28. The Rev. William F. Hill, pastor . of the Brookside Evangelical Uniti ed Brethren church at Indianapol Us. will be the guest minister for ’ the week’s services. Song leader for the week will be the Rev. Gerald Gerlg, pastor of th Missionary church of this city. While attending Fort Wayne Bible college, he was director of music , for a group of students who were > sent to Europe to interpret the Youth for Christ movement. The Rev. Virgil Sexton, pastor of the Methodist church, will preside at the opening service Sunday evening, assisted by the Jtev. Stuart Brightwell, First Baptist church, and the Rev. William C. Feller, Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. Special music will be presented each night, with the Methodist and Trinity Evangelical United Brethren choirs singing at-Sunday’s opening. * The public is invited and urged to attend each evening. The Methodist chapel will be open each evening in order that groups and individuals may pray before services open. Three Minor Wrecks Reported In City Little Damage Done In Three Accidents Three minor accidents occurred in the city Friday and Saturday morning. Cars driven by Jacob C. Heiman. 69, of Decatur route four, and Richard E. Burkhart, 32, of Decatur, were damaged at 6:15 p.m. Friday at the corner of Nuttman avenue and 13th street. Heiman was headed north on 13tb street and had his left turn signa! operating as he approached the Nuttman avenue intersection. Burkhart, headed south, thought Heiman was going to turn west so be began a left turn to the east on Nuttman. Heiman continued north and the vehicles collided, causing 8150 damage to the Heiman car and 8275 to the Burkhart vehicle. A car operated by Jack Lee Chilcote was slightly damaged when it was hit from the rear by a car driven by Herbert H. Hamrick, 21, of Decatur route five. Chilcote had stopped for a train on Mercer avenue and defective brakes in the Hamrick car prevented him from stopping. At about 7 a.m. today at the intersection of Monroe and 13th streets, cars driven by Vincent F. Habegger, 43, of Linn Grove, and Anthony J. Pardo, Jr., 24, of Decatur, collided. Damage was estimated at |l5O to the Habegger car and 850 to the Pardo vehicle. ■ INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness with widely scattered showers today and tonight Sunday fair with little change In temperature. Lpw tonight 48-56. High Sunday 76-78. Outlook for Monday: Fair and continued mild. . noon Emfioir

Adlai Blasis Eisenhower On Foreign Policy Chides Ike, Dulles For Poor Conduct Os Foreign Affairs CINCINNATI (UP) — Adlai E. Stevenson today chided President Eisenhower and secretary of state John Foster Dulles as derelict and untruthful in their conduct of foreign affairs, particularly in the Suez Canal crisis. The Democratic presidential candidate waited for a long time to go after the administration on the Suez and explained to a highly responsive audience of about 4,000 people here Friday night that he did so only because Mr. Eisenhower, himself, introduced the subject into the campaign “in a highly misleading way.” The Democratic candidate spelled out his foreign policy case against the Republicans iq detail bluntly blaming the President and his secretary of state for “misleading” the American public on the general foreign situation and the Suez in particular. He said Dulles described “every defeat as a victory ami every setback as a triumph," fyhile Korea was still divided by an “uneasy armistice,’’ the richest half of Indochina had become a new Communist satellite and “Communism and neutralism” were making great gains in Ceylon, Burma and Indonesia. He said America's relations with Britain and France were growing increasingly fragile, the idea of the European defense community had collapsed and ' the United States has been “of no help whatever” in settling the Cyprus dispute. Yet. Stevenson said, the administration and particularly the President said “All is well.” He said the President in the Northwest this weak "sought to make political capital” of the Suez situation, “a crisis that could engulf the world.” He appraised the President s report of “good news” on the Suez a week ago as the product of a television show arranged by “advertising agents” on the GOP. “Why didn’t the President tell us the truth?” Stevenson inquired. “Why hasn't he told us frankly that what has happened in thbse past few months is that the Communist rulers of Soviet have accomplished Russian ambitions that the Czars could never accomplish? Russian power and influence have moved into the Middle East — the oil tank of Europe and Asia and the great bridge between East and West.” Stevenson planned to fly this morning to South Bend, Ind., for a mid-day political rally before at(Continuea on Page Six) More Deaths Feared In Gas Explosions Seven Dead, Three Others Near Death HERRIN, 111. (UP) — Doctors feared today that a propane gas explosion seven lives may claim three more victims before the day is over. Three children and two couples died from burns when the explosion ignited a sheet of flames which swept through a residential neighborhood as they sat or played on their front lawns. Two sisters, Sharon Jarvis, 10, and Susan, 8, were near death throughout the night at Herrin hospital, where doctors watched helplessly as life ebbed from their charred bodies. They also doubted that 20-year-old Carl Kerly would survive. Hope was offered for a 7-month-old boy, who was apparently out of danger. Two other women also had a chance to live, doctors said. Those dead were Oscar Williams, 38, and his wife, Violet, 33; their son, Fred, 3; Mrs. Williams’ parents, Fred, 62, and Elizabeth Kerley, 63; Charlotte Jarvis, 11 and Robert Lee Keller, 5. The disaster originated from a leaky valve ’on a truck full of heavy propane gas, which Louis Scheffler, 50, was unloading into 100-gallon cylinders, a . The gas apparently clung to an area under the/Robert Keiter home 200 feet away from the truck. Suddenly an open flame, probably a pilot light, touched off the first explosion. Within seconds, the whole neighborhood eehoed the blasts of about SO tanks which wore set off in the chain-reason. • „ ■ . •

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Report Russian Tanks And Troops Advancing On Capital Os Poland

Soviet Leaders Complete Blitz Trip To Poland I - Soviet- Communist Party Boss, Other Leaders End Visit WARSAW (UP) —Soviet Com. munist Party leader Nikita S| Khrushchev and his top-level delegation flew back to Moscow today, ending a “blitz" visit to Warsaw which coincided with critj ical reformation of the Polish government and Communist party. The Russians were seen off by the entire outgoing Polish party politburo. Also on hand was Wlaydslaw Gomulka, restored to a post of power only Friday after years of disgrace as a “Titoist.” Departure of Khrushchev and his party noticeably eased. tension which had been building up since the Soviets unexpected arrival in Warsaw Friday. The PoHsh army went on the alert while Russian and Polish leaders met secretly to discuss “current problems of Intereat.” The central committee ipterrupted Us session Friday on the dramatic arrival -of the Khruelfc’ chevied delegation. It is aeheduled to reconvene today so mat the old leaders and the recently “rehabilitated" ones can thrash out a new course. Khrushchev flew to Warsawwhile Poland's Communist leaders were in the process 'of ousting the hard core old Stalinists wrom the party’s ruling politburo. The Russians came in the wake of reports that Polish party leader Edward Ochab rejected an invitation to fly to Moscow and discuss the political crisis with Soviet leaders. Ochab also was reported to have turned down a Soviet sug(Continued on r*age Five) I / I Teenagers To Assist In Community Fund Plan Door-To-Door Canvass Os Decatur Decatur’s teenagers will once more give their assistance to a civic project when they join in the effort to raise 813,400 in the current Community Fund drive. At a meeting Friday night called by Lyle Mallonee, general chairman of the drive, David Heimann of Decatur Catholic high school was named general chairman of the teen’ project. David will appoint a co-chair-man from 'Decatur high school and the two will plan and coordinate a door-to-door canvass of the city by local high school students sometime this month. The teens will have complete charge of the drive. The teenagers plan to go to every house in town to ask for small contributions to the Community Fund. They will, request only “loose change" from local residents. Because of the football game at Columbia City Friday night, no representatives of Decatur high school were present at the meeting but another meeting for D. H. S. will be called in the near future. Those who attended last nighT frofii 'D. C, H. S. were Alan Wiseman, Anthony Gillig, Fred Lengerich, Phil Reed, Ron Meyer, Paul Gross, Steve Omlor, Bob MurphyKathy Kohne, Kathleen Baker, Susie Parrish, Mary Frances Beckmeyer, Carolyn . Heimann James A. Heimann, Paul Hess and David Heimann. Mallonee also announced today a donation of 822 from the Monmouth high school student council who made the contribution through their advisor. John Hosier, in appreciation tor their use of the Decatur Youth end Com-, rnunity Center. W. ■ ■ •

— light Rain Brings Stale Some Relief Central And Southern Areas Benefit Most ' By UNITED PRESS ! The thirsty Hoosier countryside soaked up light rain today. It wasn’t a drought-breaker. But it brought relief. ♦ • Central and southern areas, seared by weeks of no rain or very little, generally received showers [measuring between one-half and ’ three-fourths of an inch. — ‘ Northeastern areas got only about one-quarter inch, and the ’ northwest section, one of the hardest hit by the autumn precipitation shortage, received even less. Meanwhile, temperatures headed back toward the 80s after a oneday respite from abnormally high readings which featured the Indi- > ana weather menu all week. Showers and thundershowers i ranged up to .90 of an inch at i Danville. Other totals included 1 Knightstown .75, Scottsburg .72, 1 Mill .60, Greencastle .58, Anderson Marion .71, Shelbyville .70, Cagles 1 and Indianapolis .56, Jamestown ’ .50, Fort Wayne .25, Evansville .19, ■ Lafayette .05 and South Bend, a trace. Widely scattered showers were expected today and tonight over the state, but the shies will clear Sunday and no further rain was in sight at least through Mon- - (Continued on 'Page Five) Local Man's Sister Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs. Eva Pfeifer, 78, of Fort Wayne, sister of Philip Sauer of Decatur, died Friday morning at St. Joseph's hospital. Mrs. Pfeifer was a native of Germany and a resident of Fort Wayne for the past 61 years. , - Suriving are twb sons, Emil B. and Herbert G. of Fort Wayne, a daughter, Mrs. Helen Koehlinger i of Fort Wayne; four brothers Adam Sauer of Springfield, 0., Philip Sauer of Decatur, John Sauer of Ossian and Louis Sauer of Fort Wayne; two sisters, Mrs. Anna Maier of Dayton, O„ and Mrs? Mary Schumm of Willshire, O. The body is at Wellman’s funeral home in Fort Wayne, where friends may call after 7 p.m. today. Services will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. Emmaus Lutheran church. Burial will be in Greenlawn ceremony. Stevenson Proposal Assailed By Nixon Bomb Testing Halt Attacked By Nixon WASHINGTON (UP) — Vice President Richard M. Nixon today began a weekend breather before jumping off Monday on a final twoweek campaign swing. Nixon wound up his second campaign swing Friday night at Baltimore saying Adlaf Stevenson’s proposh) to halt H-bomb testing coincides with Russian objectives. The vice president called the Democratic presidential nominee an “inexperienced second stringer” and challenged him to face “cross examination” bjn. newsmen on hie H-bomb proposal. Nixon and his wife, Pat, arrived home by motorcade smiling and apparently in good condition after their 10,009-mile transcontinental tour through 14 states in 11 days. So far they have traveled a total of 28,000 miles in two major campaign tours. The Nixons arrived here by plane Friday afternoon and traveled by motorcade to Baltimore. The vice president addressed an estimated 5,000 people at a GOP rally at the Timonium fairgrounds. “There is no objective which the world Communirt leaders have sought morb eagerly than to have hydrogen bomb tests discontinued,” Nixon said. -

Ike Raps At Stevenson On Draff, Tests Takes Sharp Issue • On Halting Tests, — Abandoning Draft LOS ANGELES (UP)—President Eisenhower took sharp issue with Adlat Stevenson Friday night for advocating the abandonment of the draft and H-bomb tests and then headed for Washington today to draft a 'reply to a new proposal from Soviet Premier Nicolai Bulganin. The text of the latest message from the Soviet premier, received in Washington Friday, remained secret until the President can stuay it. He was expected to draft an answer to it Sunday. There was speculation it dealt with disarmament, including the question of banning further hydrogen bomb tests. Mr. Eisenhower has said repeatedly, such a ban can be Ordered only after an agreement for international inspection of nuclear stockpiles has been reached. Such a ban was proposed by Bulganin in his last previous message to the President, who countered by referring to his proposal for “open skies" aerial inspection made at the Geneva conference. Stevenson since has made a campaign issue of both the draft and the H-bomb testing by declaring they ought to be junked by an international pact. The President, in a bare-knuckles televised political speech Friday night in Hollywood Bowl, tookVCW his glasses, narrowed his lips and departed from his prepared text to declare, without Identifying his Democratic opponent by name: “The man who today dismisses our military draft as an ’incredible waste’ is a man who, while I do not question his sincerity, is speaking from Incredible folly or incredible ignorance of war or the causes of war.” Mr. Eisenhower roused applause from the standing - room - only (Continues on ra«e Six) Annual Halloween Parade October 31 Big Callithumpian Parade In Decatur The biggest Calithumpian parade in history is promised by Cliff Brewer, chairman of the event, which will be held on Second street in Decatur, Wednesday night, October 31, at 7:30 o’clock. Brewer said that 15 high school bands have entered the parade, which is the largest number ever scheduled. ' He also announced that the parade marshals wilt be William Bowers, Clyde Butler and Martin Spruner. Persons wishing to enter floats, cars' or implements should contact any of these three men to make advance arrangements if necessary. The same prizes will be awarded this year as last and the prize schedule will be announced in a few days. An invitation to Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts to march has been extended As in previous years the parade will form at the jail on South first street and then go down Adams street to Second street and continue through the downtown area past the judging stands and return. The Calithumpian pardde has been an anntwib event in Decatur for many years and sponsored by the retail merchants as a civic event to give an outlet to the Halloween energies of the boys and girls of the community. It baa been credited with limiting the vandalism prevalent before-the first such event. ' ■ . .

Kefauver Invades Nixon's Home Slate it Asserts Nixon For "I Special Interests EN ROUTE WITH KEFAtIVER (UP)—Sen. Estes Kefauver (IlTenn) invaded Vice President Richard M. Nixon’s home state of California today and cited Chief Justice Earl Warren. Sen William F. Knowland and Gov. Goddwin Knight to bolster his anti-Nixon fight. Kefauver, in remarks prepared for his vice presidential campaign through California beginning at Chico, accused Nixon of voting for the “special interests" and against labor, the farmers, power and reclamation .projects, housing, rural electrification, and rivers, harbors and flood control projects. “When big business called," Kefauver said, “the old Nixon was there." “You probably know him better i than 1 do,” Kefauver told the 1 Californians. “You have seen him campaign. “And, for that matter, his three top fellow Republicans in this state have already clearly expresssed my opinion,” he said. Tm referring to Gov. Knight, Senator Knowland and Chief Justice. Warren.” said. , “When for reelection as'governor in 1950 he refused publicly to campaign with Mr. Nixon who that year was a candidate for the senate. “And in October, 1952 Senator Knowland said: “I do not consider a Pepsodent smile, a ready quip, an actor’s perfection with lines, nor an ability to avoid issues as qualifications for high office,’ ” Kefauver said. In his prepared remarks, Kefauverv did not elaborate on Knight's attitude toward Nixon. Alleges Shakedown By Hall On Conlrad Committee Study Os Contract Recessed WASHINGTON (UP) — House investigators today recessed indefinitely their study of Republican national chairman Leonard W. Hall’s alleged "crude political shakedowns’’ for campaign funds. Hall called the investigation “a pre-election political stunt." Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Ttttas), chairman of a house government operations subcommittee investigating the government’s Nienro nickel plant in Cuba, said he had invited Hall to answer the charges against him under oath. But Hall refused, Brooks said, i 4 Hall said he would be glad to testify to the subcommittee after the election. He noted that he had been invited to testify at his own convnience. Rep. Harry S. Reuss (D-Wi«) a member of the committee, said Hall’s activities during negotiations for a $43 million expansion of the Nicaro plant amounted to “crude political shakedowns’’ for campaign funds. Hte said that unless committee witnesses had committed perjury Hall should be sent to jail. ’ Democratic Midwest Farm Rally Oct. 25 WASHINGTON CUP) — Plans were announced Friday night for a climactic Democratic midwest “farm day" rally at Springfield, 1(1., Oct. 25. Both Adlai E- Stevenspn and Sen. Estes .Kefauver will be on hand. James A. Finnegan. StevensonKefauver campaign manager, billed the event as a “great climax to the farm campaign at whlteh the failure of-the Eisenhower-Benson administration in the farm areas will be dramatically . highlighted and the Democratic position explained to all farmers."

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Newspaper In Pairs Reports Soviet Action Correspondent Says Troops On Advance From East Germany LONDON (UP) — The Paris newspaper Le Monde reported today that 800 Russian tanks and “important” troop concentrations have marched Into Poland from Red Germany and are advancing on Warsaw. Le Monde corre sp o nde.n t Philippe Ben reported from Warsaw that Polish Communist leaders are distributing arms to students and workers to resist the Russian advance. Ben said Polish secret police have refused to arrest 700 “liberal” Polish officials spearheading Poland’s attempt to break away from the Kremlin. Earlier, the Swedish newspaper Expressen reported that Communist' boas N. S. Khrushchev warned Poles seeking independence from Moscow that “we will crush with force” any attempt at revolt. Derrick M. Winter, the corre“broke the story” of Khrushchev’s blitz mission to Warsaw, told Expressen the Russian leader “lost control of himself , , . during a meeting with representatives of the Polish Politburo.” “ ‘I am going to show you what the road to sociadism looks like’!” Winter quoted Khrushchev as say- : ing. “‘lf you don’t obey, we will crush with force any attempt to revolt’.” t At the politburo meeting, Winter said, Khrushchev refused to shake hands with Wladyslaw Gomulka, the Communist leader purged eight years ago for Titoism who Friday reemerged as i “Poland’s strong man." ■ The restoration of Gomulka is believed to be the reason for Khrushchev’s dramatic dash to Red Warsaw Friday. Soviet defense minister G. K. Zhukov also has been reported in Poland. Winter said an “opposition Communist” told him that any attempt by Khrushchev to Impose a “harsh line” on Poland would result in anti-Russian rioting throughout the country “with the support of us Communists.” ■ : “A harsh Russian line could ■ mean only one thing a new Poznan, but this time all over the country,” the Red source said. Th - . was a refernece to the , bloody rioting last June in the industrial city of Poznan, for which more than 150 Poles are new being tried. Earlier, Western observers had said Zhukov’s presence in Poland gave blunt evidence of Moscow’* intention of retaining the upper hand in relations with its European satellite states. Zhukov was reported to have flown to Lodnica, headquarters of the Soviet forces in Poland, wfffie Communist Party boss Nikita S. Khrushchev and a high-powered Soviet delegation went to Warsaw to confer with Polish party leaders. (Continued oh Page Six) Fish Fry Television Broadcast Monday Three Decatur men who are In charge of the eighth annual ruralurban fish try and the first annual soybean festival, to be held in this‘city next week, will boost the events in a television program over WKJG-TV, Fort Wayne, at 12:30 Monday afternoon, Instead of Tuesday, as previously announced, Clarence Ziner, fish fry chairman; Leo Seltenright, Adams county agricultural agent, and Robert Tracy, chairman of the retail division of the Chamber of. Cqmntercs, will be Interviewed by Jack Gray-at the neon-time program. . '