Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 250, Decatur, Adams County, 23 October 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No? 250

NEW FACES IN POUND’S COMMUNIST PARTY THEIR STRUGGLE for “independence” from Moscow apparently won. Polish leaders are shown at a Communist party meeting in W’arsaw. Tbe photo shows Wladyslaw Gomulka (third from left) named new First Secretary of the party in Poland, who succeeds Edward Ochab (sixth from left). Josef Cryankiewicz (fifth from left) Is Premier in tbe new set-up.

Soviet Ships Cruising In Polish Waters Report Poland Has • Demanded Russia Withdraw Vessels WARSAW (UP)—Three Soviet cruisers and "17 destroyers and trawlers cruised* today in Polish territorial waters off G d a n k (Danzig) and Poland was reported to have demanded their withdrawal. The greatly Increased Soviet naval activity coincided with reports by Warsaw Radio of "antiSoviet incidents" which took place during the night in Wroclaw. In another development stemming from the weekend events, the Polish prosecutor general’s office today ordered a revision ofall indictments handed Up in connection with the “bread ind freedom” riots in Posnan last Juht 28. An announcement added that the court had been handed a motion asking it “to release from custody all those who are not charged with murders or robberies. ’ Only a handful of those arrested in the riots have been tried in the past few weeks. Those con- —- victed have received minor prison terms. Now it appears that further trials will be cancelled. “Two or three’ Soviet war vessels were reported off Gdansk —- Monday but reports said there were 20 vessels off the city Cod ay. Appearance of the vessels already had brought panic to residents of the area despite Soviet assurances the ships were there on "routine maneuvers.” Reports from Moscow that Russia had "recognized” the new Communist leadership of Wlady- *' slaw Gomulka was believed based on Poland’s agreement to retain pro-Russian Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky as defense minister. The 17 additional Soviet vessels apparently arrived during the night—some 24 hours after the demotion of Rokossovsky from the Polish Communist party politburo, or party leadership. But Monday night he was seen in a jovial mood drinking with Yugoslav officials at a gala reception. The official Warsaw Radio broadcast gave few details of the new "incidents” but it said, “The working class and the population of Wroclaw has recognised to whom such incidents can bring advantages and condemns them with indignation.” Reports reaching said thousands of Polish students paraded through the streets of Wroclaw formerly Breslau in an anti-Russian demonstration. The reports said the students chanted "Long live free Poland” and shouted "Rokossovsky go home” and "Rokossovsky to Siberia.” Aged Geneva Resident Dies Monday Evening Willis Clark Glendening, 94, of Geneva, died at 6:35 o’clock Monday evening at the Jay county hospital in Portland. Surviving are the widow, Ruth; three sons, Lake Glendening of Geneva, Bert of Portland. Ore., and Willis of Muncie; six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home at Geneva, l)r. A. B. McKain officiating. Burial will be in West Lawn cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after A 7 p. m. today. ‘

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Both City Utilities < Show Net Profits ■ v ■ . *> Financial Reports By Superintendents Both city utilities shows net profits in the third quarter financial statements issued today by L. E. Pettibone, superintendent of the light and power department, and Ralph E. Roop, head of the water department. A net profit of $3,176.16 for the quarter in the power department brings the total profit of the year up to Sept. 30 to $17,278.76, which is 1.7 percent under 1955. Pettibone’s report shows 998.35 in operating revenue, $171,894.81 in operating revenue deductions. $1,714.33 in other income and $6,641.71 in income deductions Tor the net profit of $3,176.16. Steam plant expenses during the third quarter totalled $69,012.74; diesel expenses. $44,702.70; distribution expenses, $18,592.53; accounting and collecting expenses, "$1,478.27; sales expenses, $6,389.17; administration and general expenses, $28,779.84, and taxes, $1,933.87. Income deductions include $4,303.11 for interest on the long term debt and $2,338.60 for donated street lighting. During the third quarter 6,538,000 K.W.H. were generated at the steam plant and 9,304,000 at the diesel plant for a total of 9,842,000 K.W.H.. making the total to date a 6.1 percent increase over 1955. Water Department A net profit of $8,272.40 is shown in ißoop’s report on the city water department. This brings the total profit as of Sept. 30 to $15,532.30, a' 17.2 percent increase for the department over a similar period in 1955. „ The water department statement shows $31,649.90 in operating revenues, $21,515.04 in operating revenue deductions. $85.06 fn other Income and $1,947.52 in income deductions. The breakdown of operating revenue deductions shows $254.97 in source of supply expenses, $3,669.19 in pumping expenses. $8,362.28 in purification expenses, $2,913.55 in transportation and distribution expenses, $1,273.22 in accounting and collecting expenses, $2,548.75 in administrative and general expenses, $2,275.58 in depreciation and $217.50 in taxes. The income deductions were $302.79 for interest on long term debt and $1,644.73 for interdepartmental sales donated.' The statistics for the quarter show that a total of 93,429,600 gallons of water were pumped during the month. The total gallonage pumped up to the end of the quarter is a 1.9 percent decrease from the same period in 1955. This amount includes close to six million gallons used at the city swimming pool, The statistical report also shows that 16.6 percent of the water pumped through the plant was used at the plant and that there was a 15.4 percent water loss to the mains. The 342 tons of salt used during the quarter cost $5,061.60. 4- ; Issues Reminder On Fall Tax Deadline Waldo Neal, county treasurer, issued another reminder today that the fall installment of taxes is due on or before Monday. Nov. 5. HF stated that for the benefit of taxpayers. the office would remain open each Saturday until 4 p.m. from now until the deadline date. He urged local residents to come early and avoid tbe last minute rush.

Adlai Plunges Info Slrefch Os Campaign Terms Eisenhower Reply To Bulganin As Unfortunate CHICAGO (UP) — Adlai E. Stevenson plunged into the final tw r o weeks of his campaign today with a five-day swing centered on vote-, rich New York. Illinois and California. * - = Stevenson, still embroiled in a running fight over his ideas about ending H-bomb tests, was scheduled to leave by plane this afternoon for New York City. He will campaign in that area until Thursday, when he returns to Illinois for a visit highlighted by a major farm speech at Springfield Thursday. Stevenson will fly to California for addresses in San Francisco and Los Angeles Saturday. En-, route, he will stop at Albuquerque. N.M., and on his way back he will spend Saturday night in Phoenix, Ariz. The booty involved in Stevenson’s tour this week is considerable— New • York, ~ Illinois and California carry 104 electoral votes of the 266 needed to win the presidency in the election two weeks from today. Stevenson’s view that this nation should take the lead in seeking an end to H-bomb tests shapes up as the hottest issue currently, and possibly until election day. The Democratic nominee added fuel to the fire Monday with a statement saying he agreed with President Eisenhower in resenting the way Russian Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin came out late last week in support of an end to the tests. Bulganin endorsed the view of “certain prominent public figures* in America (fn the issue, a term taken by some to refer to Stevenson. Mr. Eisenhower said he regarded this as an interference in this nation’s internal affairs. Stevenson said “I share fully President Eisenhower’s resentment.” but added, “the real issue is what we are going to do to save the world from hydrogen disaster.” Stevenson aimed criticism at the President’s strongly-worded reply to Bulganin. "Viewed from the standpoint not of politics, but of peace, I think the President’s reply is un(Continued on Page Five) City and County Schools To Close Thursday, Friday Teachers institutes will provide a two-day vacation for all students in the county Thursday and Friday. Meetings for public school teachers will be held in Fort Wayne and In dianapolis. The Catholic school sac ulty members will attend the Fort Wayne diocesan institute at Fort Wayne. Most of the local public school teachers will attend the. Fort Wayne meeting. Delegates to the Indianapolis institute, which will feature the annual business meet ing of the Indiana teachers associa tion, will include Margaret Rhofles of Geneva, Fred Johns of Pleasant Mills, Max Stanley of Hartford and Mrs. Bernice VanMatre of Geneva. Both the public and Catholic institutes will feature discussions on various teaching problems. Both elementary and high school teachers throughout the county will attend the two-day meetings.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tues day, October 23, 1956

Hungarian Students In Demonstration Against Government, Russians

Link Russian Officials To Chwaslov Case Sen. Jenner Makes Demand Two Soviet s Officials Ousted WASHINGTON (UP) — Chairman William E. Jenner (R-Ind) of the senate internal security subcommittee today demanded that two Russian diplomatic officals be “ousted” from the United States for their part in the Tanya ChwastcA case. He made the demand after his subcommittee heard testimony linking Konstantin P. Ekimov, first secretary of the Russian delegation to the United Nations, and Fedor Fedorovich Solomatin, second serdetary of the Soviet embassy in Washington, to the in? trigue which accompanied the de-j parture of Tanya and her refugee father from this country. Tanya.-2% year-old Americanborn child, and her father, Alexei Chwastov, sailed from New York Oct. 3 aboard the British linen Mary. She and her are in London awaiting a British court hearing on custody of the, child. ■ Jenner’s subcommittee has been investigating whether Tanya and her father were “coerced" into leaving this country. Church welfare officials who were helping Chwastov have testified that he left this country in fear that Russian embassy officials would "get him” if he remained, L__ Jacob Singer, a U.S. immigration inspector a New York, testified at today’s hearing that the liner Queen Mary was ordered to delay its Oct. 3 sailing until Tanya could be taken off the ship, but that someone—he didn’t know who—“countermanded" the order. He also said that “higher officials” of the ,U.S. government will be called to testify. He said testimony so far shows a “total failure of someone in our government to use the legal powers they have.”

Pres. Eisenhower 4 To Undergo Exam Thorough Checkup Planned Saturday WASHINGTON (UP) — President Eisenhower this weekend will undergo the “head to toe” physical examination that he promised to have before election day. The Whitg House said results of the examination will be released at the latest on Monday—eight days before the voters go to "the polls. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty announced Monday the President will enter Walter Reed army medical center Saturday and remain overnight while undergoing the “head to toe” check up. Hagerty said the President felt "fine” after his five-day campaign swing to the West Coast last week. The President today continued to press his relection campaign. He prepared to release this afternoon a special reply to Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson’s proposal to halt H-bomb testing. He will speak tonight at the 75th anniversady celebration of the AFL-CIO Carpenters Union at the Sheraton-Park Hotel here. The talk will not be broadcast. The President will be interviewed Wednesday by a panel of GOP women in an afternoon television appearance. He wil speak, at Madison Square Garden in New York Thursday night. _— Hagerty said top military and civilian doctors who attended the (Continued on Pago Five)

City To Advertise For Bids For Power Special Meeting Is Held By Councilmen At a special meeting of the city council Monday afternoon, a resolution was adopted authorizing the city clerk-treasurer to publish a -1 legal notice asking for sealed bids or proposals for the furnishing of electrical energy to the city of - Decatur. i The bids will be received by the r council and the city board of pub--1 lie works and safety at the city - hall until 7 p.m y (C.S.T.) Tuesday, • Nov. 6, when they will be opened > and studied by the council at the regular session. i The bids are to be accompanied ' by non-collusion affidavits and are . to follow plans and specifications i which are on file at the city hall ■ now. The legal notice will also ■ state that any or all of the bids 1 may be rejected but if bids are • found to be satisfactory, a contract •i will be awarded to the lowest bidt der. The specifications call for the ‘ supplying of energy to be alternat- ' ing current at not less than 33,000 : volts, three phase, at a maximum j capacity ot 7,000 KVA. The coni tract is to have a 10-year term and 1 then to be renewed from year to year for an additional term of not to exceed 15 years. Either party i can terminate the contract on 60 1 days notice. • The specifications call for the ’ supplier to furnish all necessary ’ lines, sub station, protective equip--1 ment and other associated equip- ’ ment needed to deliver the maximum capacity to a dlivery point Which TVHTbelocated near the west’ corporation limits of the city of. Decatur. The energy is to be supplied un- ' der a tariff approved by the Indiana public service commission and tfae city is to provide the sion line from the point of delivery to the location of the substation. Power thus purchased will aug(Continued on rage Five) Spiritual Emphasis Services Continue Youth Night Marked At Services Monday A fine audience attended the Monday evening service of Spiritual Emphasis week at the First Methodist church. The guest preacher, the Rev. William F. Hill, pastor of Brookside Evangelical United Brethren church in Indianapolis, used as his subject, “Christ is Able." He stated, “life is filled’ with trial and trouble, and we all need help. Some seek help in drinking, others turn to literature; others look to nature; still others look to music. None of these satisfies. Christ alone, is able to comfort the broken-hearted. He will comfort us it we will come to Him.” Monday evening was youth night. The high school chorus, under the direction of Miss Helen Haubold, sang two numbers. “Show Me Thy Way, O Lord,” and “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.” The Rev. John Chambers was the presiding minister, the Rev. Gerald I. Gerig was song leader, the scripture was read by the Rev. Lawrence T. Norris, and the evening prayer was offered by the Rev. C. E. Lykins. At the Tuesday evening service. Rev. Hill will speak on the sub- ■ jeet, “There is a Lad Here,” and a’ special invitation is extended to young married people to attend the service. The Rev. Ray Walther will preside, the Rev. Traverse ChandIr will read the scripture and the Rev. W. H. Kirkpatrick will offer ) the evening prayer. Services will be held each night this week except Saturday, at 7:30 pTm at the Methodist church. There will be a prayer service each evening in th chapsl at 7 p.m. A nurs- , ery is provided for those bringing small children.

First Soybean Festival Opens Here Thursday First Annual Event > Opens Thursday At Comriwnity Center The first annual Adams county soybean festival will open Thursday afternoon" at 2 o’clock at the Decatur Youth and Community Center, with the judging of six classes of beans to determine 18 medal winners and the 1956 soybean king. Types of beans to be judged in the contest will be Blackhawk, Monroe, Hawkeye, Harosoy, Lincoln and Adams. The actual judging will be done by a Purdue University professor. Beans must be entered at the Community building before 11 am. Thursday. Following the bean judging, the medaf winners will be announced and each will be given a complimentary ticket to the eighth annual ruralurban fish fry Thursday evening, where the soybean king will ba crowned by Miss Mary Jane McNulty, Miss Indiana for 1956. Next scheduled on the program Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock will be a soybean discussion on varieties best adapted te Adams county by Dr. A. H. Probst, soybean specialist of Purdue university, followed "by a question and answer period. At 2 {/clock, also at the center, the elimination contest, open to the public, will begin for the Adams county 1956 soybean queen. Five of the 15 contestants will be . chosen for the elimination contest during the evening. Each of the 15 girls will be given as long as five minutes to display her talent, which ranges from music to baton twirling and dramaUcs. * ~ Joe Kaehr, chairman of the soybean queen contest, announced today that he and his committee had mailed each of the 15 contestants complimentary tickets to the soybean ball, where the queen and her court will lead the grand march Friday night at 9 o’clock at the center. The queen will be chosen Thursday evening as a part of the program of the eight!} annual ruralurban fish fry at the Decatur high school building. She will also be crowned by Miss McNulty, following the awarding of the soybean medals and the naming of the soybean king. (Continued on Page Five) Forty Hours Opens ) Here On Thursday Devotions To Close On Sunday Evening Forty Hours devotions at St. Mary’s Catholic church are scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, opening with a high mass Friday at 8 a m. The special devotions will continue through the three days, with the solemn closing at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Masses on Friday and Saturday will be at 5?45, 7 and 8 a.m. and on Sunday the regular mass schedule of 6, 7:30, 9 and 10:15 a.m, will be followed. Holy hours will be held each afternoon of the three days from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., and evening devotions will begin each evening at 7:30 o’clock. It was also announced that confessions will be heard from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday and after the evening devotions on Friday and Saturday. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cooler tonight. Wednesday fair. Low tonight 36-42 north, 40-46 south. High Wednesday in the 60s. Sunaet 5:55 p.m., sunrise Wednesday 6:05 a. m.

French Cabinet In Emergency Session Face North African Fury Over Seizure PARIS (UP) —The French cabinet rushed into an emergency meeting today to face North African fury over French seizure of five leaders of the Algeria rebellion Monday night. Moslems in Tunis called i 24hour general strike that crippled the nation’s industry, commerce and transportation. Workers also struck in Rabat, Morocco, as government officials studied plans of retaliation against France. French authorities here confirmed that fighter planes forced down a Moroccan airliner over Algeria Mnday and five leaders of the ahti-French rebellion in Algeria who were aboard were thrown in jail. They were en route to Tunis for talks with Moroccan Sultan Ben Youssef and Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba. The government in Tunie poured heavily armed reinforcements around the French embassy. In Algeria, all Franch forces were ordered on a state of alert as rumors flow through Algiers of a possible general insurrection in retaliation for the arrests. Three armed man kidnaped a French army colonel as he left his home in Casablanca early today. Defense ministry officials in Paris sent emergency orders to commanders of French troops in Tunisia an<i Morocco to take special precautions against possible revenge tactics against French civilians. A report from Cairo, Egypt, said the Algerian national liberation committee appointed two neW leaders of the rebellion to replace the captured leaders and announced that the war in Algeria will continue “without the slight"est TntefruptranT Charges Soil Bank Is Election Bail Kefauver Assails Republican Usage WATERLOO, lowa (UP) — Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) charged today that the Eisenhower administration is spending soil bank money as election bait in states where the Republicans are In political trouble. “The soil bank is being cut and trimmed to fit the political needs of the Eisenhower administration,” the vice presidential candidate said in a speech prepared for delivery before a combined AFL-CIO and national farmers organization meeting at the fair grounds here. "I am sure lowa farmers will not be fooled by Republican leap year sympathy” he said. “Very little of the money is going to the states that are considered to go Democratic," he said on his secend trip to lowa since Oct. 12. “Not much more of it is going to states that are considered safely Republican. “The money is being spent in states where Republicans are in the most serious political trouble, states like lowa,” Kefauver said. “One fifth of the whole national total that is being spent on the soil bank is going into lowa." Kefauver said he was in favor of the soil bank which he said was originated by the Democrats anyway. But he said the Republicans have turned it into a short term, election year political operation. BULLETIN Mrs. J. C. Sutton, Sr., 79, widow of a former Judge of the Adams circuit court died at 1:50 o’clock this afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital after an extended illness. 4- • .

Withdrawal Os Soviet Troops • Sought Today 10,000 Students Demonstrate For New Government l BUDAPEST, . Hungary (UP) — ' More than 10,000 Hungarian univer- • sity students demonstrated today • for a new government and the immediate withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary. The demonstrations came as Hungary’s premier and its Coj 1 munist party leader returned from friendly talks with Yugoslav Pres- , ident Tito in Belgrade. A communique issued in the Yugoslav capital said the Hungarian and Yugoslav leaders had agreed in two weeks of talks on close cooperation to “prevent the repetition of past mistakes which inflicted serious harm upon the workers movement.” The Belgrade communique did not spell out these “past mistakes,” but this phrasing generally i$ taken to refer to the errors of Stalinism. Premier Andras Hegedues and ( Communist Party boss Ernoe Geroe arrived by train from Belgrade and declared they had reached “full agreement” in their conversations with Tito on restoring normaL Yugoslav • Hungarian relations. Geroe said the eight days of talks had touched on “most important questions’’ poncernlng relations between the Communist parties of the two countries and that the talks with Tito were a “landmark in the history of Hungaro • Yugoslavian relations.” “Our talks have led to full agree-ment-on all he said. ~ “ But Geroe and Hegedues met extensive agitation here by students who demanded that former Premier Imre Nagy be given the government and party posts now occupied by Hegedues and Geroe. It was believed changes may occur before Parliament opens Monday. Radio Budapest announced that sytdents of Budapest University called a "sympathy demonstration” In front of Poland’s Budapest legation this afternoon. Earlier the radio broadcast student demands for “an independent Hungarian internal and foreign policy.” The newspaper Szabad Ifjusag (Free Youth), official organ of Communist youth, disclosed other student demonstrations are planned in the cities of Szeged, Miskolc, Debrecen, Sopron, Eger and Goedoelloe. To Cooperate BELGRADE (UP) — Yugoslav President Tito and the Communist leaders of neighboring Hungary agreed today on close cooperation to. “prevent the repetition of past mistakes which inflicted serious harm upon the workers movement,” But, fn a long communique issued after two weeks of talks, they took no note of the past weekend’s upheaval in Poland and the reaction to these events in Hungary itself. Tito Joined Hungarian Communist party first secretary Ernoe Geroe and premier Andras Hegedues in promising to promote closer ties between their two nations* Communist parties. Fort Wayne Builder Is Killed In Fall FORT WAYNE (UP)—Frank J. Morthorse, 70. a Fort Wayne contractor, was killed Monday when he fell 18 feet through a fireplace well from a second stony to the basement of a house under construction near here. He was putting windows in the house when he fell.

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