Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 252, Decatur, Adams County, 25 October 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 252

WELLS COUNTY MEN’S CHORUS HERE SUNDAY NIGHT M'. w ■v -t I I Jg B I I fl B The Wells county men’s chorus, pictured above, will present a concert Sunday evening at the First Methodist church at the closing service of Spiritual Emphasis week. The chorus is directed by C. K. Reid, with Mrs. Jay Raymond Cox as accompanist and Mrs. William Yule special soloist. The Rev. William F. Hill, Indianapolis, is the guest speaker for the services, held each evening except Saturday at 7:30 o’clock. Choirs of the participating churches provide music each evening.

Hungary Civil War Is Raging For Third Day • . War Rages Despite New Promises From Communist Heads VIENNA (W — Hungary’s civil war, its dead already numbering in the hundreds and its wounded in the thousands, raged thrdugh its third day today despite new government promises of forgiveness and a pledge to negotiate withdrawal of all Soviet troops in Hungary. * The “working people” of Budapest fought Soviet troops and government forces through the broad streets and cobbled squares of that fabled city as the Hungarian Communists purged their o p Stalinist leaders and made continued desperate pleas for an end to bloodshed. The Communist leadership, meeting in emergency session, booted out Stalinist party boss Ernoe GerOe and named “Titoist” Janos Kardar as new first secretary. They had confirmed Geroe to that post only Wednesday. Shortly afterwards, newly restored “Titoist” premier Imre Nagy promised in a radio broadcast to the nation that he would ask for the withdrawal of all Soviet troops from Hungarian soil as soon as order is restored. “The Hungarian government will soon initiate negotiations with the Soviet Union on the withdrawal of all Soviet troops stationed in Hungary presently,” Nagy said. Then he conceded that the fighting still raged on, despite earlier government claims that the rebellion had been crushed. “Stop the tragic fighting and the useless bloodshed and let us return to peace ful work again,” Nagy said in his appeal to the people over the facilities of Budapest Radio. Polish newsmen reported to s Warsaw that the Hungarian rebels still were fighting in Budapest at 2 p. m.—B a. m. GST—and had occupied one of the main railroad stations. The Polish newsmen said the rebels also had occupied the Hotel Paris. Immediately after Nagy's promise to rid Hungary of Russian troops, Kardar followed with a plea for an end to the revolt which he said “is still causing serious bloodshed and heavy damage.” As he spoke, many of the fine, historic buildings of Budapest were destroyed or in flames. Addressing his audience aS. ’’Comrades, working people of Hungary,” Kardar said he had “not much time to speak.” “The revolt has caused and is still causing serious bloodshed and heavy damage and will continue to do so until we end that situation by the aid of the whole Hungarian people.” Despite the continued fighting, the U.S. legation in Budapest was contacted by the United Press and said that no Americans had been injured or molested. Nagy’s plea for an end to the rebellion was coupled with the promise of Soviet troop withdrawal and a renewed promise of for(Continued On Pagre Five)

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Spiritual Emphasis Services Continue Fourth Service Is Held Last Evening “The Eternal Christ, who pointed men to God and not to Himself, is still challenging the hearts of men.” This was the theme of the Rev. William Hill in his message at the fourth Spiritual Emphasis week service Wednesday evening at the First, Methodist church. “Christians,” he pointed out, “don’t act in memory of Ghfisk but because the Christ lives within their hearts and lives. This discipleship demands all of one’s life and the Eternal Christ thus challenges men and women into His service today. Christ is the ‘eternal contemporary’ who still bids, ‘Follow Me,’ ” said Rev. Hill, “and either men, women, and children do or do not so follow, there is no middle course.” The Rev. Paul Parker presided Wednesday evening, with the Rev. Gerald Gerfg leading in song, the Rev. Virgil Sexton reading the scripture lesson, and the Rev. Ray Walther leading in prayer. The services continue this evening at 7:30 o’clock, with the Rev. Benj. G. Thomas. Bethany Evangelical United Brethren ehurch, presiding, assisted by the Rev. Traverse Chandler, First Christian church, and the Rev. Johrf Chambers, Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. The public is invited to attend and is also welcome to attend thd informal prayer service each evening at 7 o’clock in the chapel of the Methodist church. a Mathilda A. Hower Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Mr§. Mathilda A. Hower, 76, former resident of the Bobo community, died suddenly of a heart attack at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the home of her son, Harry C. Goudy, of 1016 Perry Ave., Barberton, " She was born at Convoy, 0., Nov. 29, 1879, a daughter of John and Ellen Bank-Heath. She made her home with Lavina Heath near Bobo for 16 years. Mrs. Hower was a member of the First Baptist church at Barberton. Surviving in addition to the son are five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home, and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and windy tonight and Friday with chance of a few showers mostly west portion Friday. Warmer tonight, turning cooler west portion Friday. Low tonight mostly in the 50s. High Friday mostly in the 70s. Sunset 5:52 p. m., sunrise Friday 7:07 a. m. 12 Pages

Ike, Adlai Up In Arms For Home Stretch Both Presidential Candidates Mad On Campaign, Tactics By UNITED PRESS Adlai E. Stevenson flew out of New York City today as President Eisenhower trained in to fight back for the city’s normally Democratic vote. Both were up in arms for the home stretch. The Democratic candidate, who had made a nationally televised speech from a Madison Square Garden rally Tuesday night, made seven appearances in and about the city between noon and midnight Wednesday, Rally crowds in the usually Republican suburbs were described by his associates as some of the most enthusiastic of his campaign. Stevenson told them he was “good and mad” at the Republican campaign of “misrepresentations . . . slush . . . slogans . , . epithets . ~ and silly nonsense.” Mr. Eisenhower left Washington by train at 8:30 a. m. for a major address at Madison Square Garden tonight. Mr. Eisenhower was by close associates as indignant over Stevenson's attacks on his foreign policies, particularly the recent Suez crisis. His address was expected to re-emphasize his claim that there is “good news” from Suez and other points abroad. Stevenson was to leave New York at about the time of Mr. Eisenhower's arrival, flying to Springfield, 111., where he will meet with his running mate, Sen. Estes Kefauver, and make a farm speech tonight. Vice President Richard M. Nixon was also in Illinois, touring the Chicago area in a series of whirlwind appearances. In t? speech prepaid far delivery in the heart of the city's Negro community, Nixon, urged election of a Republican house and senate to oust southern Democratic committee chairman and thus clear roadblocks to civil rights legislation. Stevenson reiterated in New York speeches his insistence that somethingmust be done to bring nuclear weapons testing to a halt. “No matter which party wins in November, another supreme effort must be undertaken, and another. and another, too,” he said. I (Continued on Page Five) Sutton Funeral is Held This Afternoon Funeral services were held this afternoon at the First Presbyterian church for Mrs. Garnet Sutton, prominent Decatur lady, who died Tuesday afternoon after a three-weeks’ illness. The Rev. Ray J. Walther officiated, and burial was in the Decatur cemetery. Pallbearers for Mrs. Sutton, whose husband, the late Jesse C. Sutton, was a former ipdge of the Adams circuit, were C. H. Muselman, G. Remy Bierly, Lewis L. Smith, Judge Myles Parrish, Severin Schurger and Hubert MeCleanahan.

Decatur, Indiana, Thu rsday, October 25, 1956

Eight Children Os One lowa Family Killed As Train Smashes Into Car

Cost Os Living At New Record High In Nation Living Costs Hit Record High During Month Os September WASHINGTON (UP) — The cost of living rose to a new record high last month, the government report* ed today. The bureau of labor statistics said its consumer price index—the government’s official yardstick of living costs —rose three-tenths of 1 per cent between August and September. The index stood in September at 117,1 per cent of average 1947-49 prices. This was one-tenth of 1 per cent above the previous record high set in July. At the same time, the bureau reported that average factory workers’ pay also reached a record high in September. Despite higher prices, it said, the purchasing power of the average factory worker’s take home pay was the highest on record for the month of September. Prices increased in y September in all major categories of*consumer goods and services except food, which remained at the August level, the bureau said. The increase brought the living cost index to a level 2.8 per cent higher than in January, 1953, when the Eisenhower administration took office. The rise will bring automatic cost-of-living wage increases of 1 to 4 cents an hour for about 300,000 workers, mostly in the electrical industry, whose wage contracts contain escalator clauses. The average take home payearnings after taxes—of a factory worker with three dependents was $74.04 a week in September. That was sl.lO higher than in August and $2.60 higher than in September, 1955. Both Republicans and Democrats have been making an issue of the cost of living this year, particularly in the presidential campaign. Today's index is the last one to be issued prior to the elections. Soybean Ball Here On Friday Evening Parade To Precede Soybean Ball Friday The 1956 Adams county soybean queen, to be selected this evening at the eighth annual rural-urban fish fry, will make her first public appearance in Decatur in a parade Friday evening through the business district on her way to lead the grand march at the soybean ball at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Tickets for the dance over which the queen will preside are on sale at several Decatur locations. Dale Morrissey ticket chairman for the event, has announced. They are Blackwell’s, Holthouse Drug. Goodyear, Newberry’s, Beavers Oil Service, Max Kreps and the Decatur Youth and Com,munity Center. The price of the dance is 50 cents a person, plus one bag of beans. It is expected to be one of the highlights of the annual three-day soybean festival now in progress. Dick Kershner, chairman of the general committee on arrangements for Friday evening, announced today that ja parade will precede the dance, beginning at the jail and continuing on Second street to the Youth Center, starting at 8:30 o’clock. The stores are to Stay’ open until 9 o’clock Friday evening in order to accommodate the persons seeking' to take advantage of the soybean bargains being offered Friday and Saturday by Decatur (Continued on Pase Five)

Big Sales Days In City Over Weekend Record Prices For Soybeans In Trade Bob Tracy, chairman of the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, today advised the wives of Decatur businessmen to believe their husbands when they said they had to work late evenings. Friday and Saturday the merchants are planning one of their , biggest sales events when they will offer world record prices for soybeans in partial payment of merchandise. Bargains being offered include paying for soybeans at the rate of S3O to $45,000 a bushel. This event has created interest sufficient to bring newspapermen from out of the city to view the affair. Stores plan to stay open Friday and Saturday evenings. But in addition to this, according to Tracy, the businessmen of the community are engaged in the greatest number of community projects ever attempted in one month. Last night and this afternoon more than 125 retail and industrial members of the Chamber of Commerce worked at the Decatur high school arranging tables and preparing food to serve the mpre than 1,300 gudsts expected at thfe eighth annual rural-urban fish fry. After the fish fry, the men will take up the tables and clean up the gym before going home. During the last couple of weeks the same men were engaged in i making preparations for the Ronald Reagan-General Electric day on October 16. Some of the same men are mak- . ing preparations for the two free movies planned for the children at the Adams theater Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. Others are helping arrange for the parade through the business district of the Adams county soybean’ queen and the dance in her honor at the Community Center Friday evening. Work is underway dis(Continued on Page Five) Boy Scouts To Sell Soybeans In City On Duty All Day Friday, Saturday Sylvester Everhart, chairman of the committee which is arranging for the Boy Scout sale of soybean* Friday and Saturday, said today that he has obtained the services of 12 adults in supervising the program. The Boy Scouts will work on three hour shifts from 9 in the morning until 9 at night Friday and Saturday in the business district They will sell bags of beans at five* cents a bag, which will entitle the purchasers to discount* in any of the more than 40 co-op erating stores during the soybean festival. Farmers have been encouraged to bring their own beans in for the sale. A pound of beans which wil lentitle customers to any of the bargains is approximately a pint. They will be accepted for trade. It has been suggested that they be placed in advance in plain paper sacks. Burk Elevator has given soybeans for the Boy Scouts to sell to those persons not raising the beans. The First State Bank has volunteered to keep the Scouts in change and take care of money collected after the bank closes. The Scouts plan to be in front of the Adams Theater 1 Friday afternoon at 1 o'clock and Saturday morning at* 10 o’clock to sell beans to those who do not have them and wish to attend the children’s cartoon movieS at-which the admission will be one pound of beans. Explorer Scouts, the older boys, will be at the 'Community Center Friday evening at 9 o’glpck to sell beans to those attending the soybean ball, where admission will be 50 cents and a bag of beans.

10 Are Dead As Result Os Four Plane Crashes Nine Dead In Air Crashes, One In Car Racing To Assist MIDLAND, Tex. Iff) — T e n persons were killed Wednesday in four airplane crashes — one an aerial collision—and an automobile crash involving a speeding sheriff’s car en route to help. Five members of a Texas family and two air force officers from Illinois were killed when their planes collided over a thickly populated Midland residential section and the jet crashed into a home. An air force officer said today it was “strictly a miracle” that no one on the ground was hurt or killed when the debris and bodies fell on the residential section. One home was destroyed by fire when the jet crashed ,intp the front of it at eave-top level. The family was gone at the time. Nearby homes were damaged by debris from the falling, planes. Another of the crashes involved a joy-riding flight mechanic. His jet plane plummeted into the ground near a big oil refinery after he reported by radio that he was having trouble “trimming (leveling) this thing." An elderly woman was killed and her companion injured when their automobile collided with a sheriff's ear speeding to clear . traffic in hopes that the air farce . mechanic would, try to land. t The aerial collision and flight . mechanic crashes occurred in the . Midland—Big Spring section of . west Texas. The other plane t crash was near Tolar, Tex., about f 46 miles southwest to Fort Worth. . The pilot, 2nd Lt. Melville Gange of Tacoma, Wash., was killed. The aerial colision involved a T 33 jjet from Webb air force base at Big Spring and a Cessna 170 carrying five members of a Texas family. Air force and civilian authorities said they could find no actual witnesses to the collision, although a number of persons reported seeing the wrecked planes falling. The jet crashed into the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Saunders, (Continued on rage Five) Heart Attack Fatal To Carey Brillsan Funeral Servicefp Saturday Afternoon Carey O: Brittsan, 69. of Fort Wayne, retired Nickel Plate railroad carpenter, died Wednesday following a heart attack suffered as he stepped from a boat on Knapp lake. He and his son-in-law, Ronald Burill, were putting into shore after a fishing excursion. Mr. Brittsan retired in 1953 after 30 years with the railroad. He had been in failing health several years. , Born in Ohio, he had lived in Fort Wayne since 1921. He was a member of the Bethany Presbyterian church, and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way, Employe lodge 179. Surviving are his widow, Anna R.; three daughters, Mrs. Gregg Knittie of Decatur, Mrs. Ronald Burill and Mrs. Victor Trim of Fort Wayne: his mother, Mrs. Lula Miller of Van Wert, O.; two sisters. Mrs. A. J? Finkhousen of Van Wert, 0., and Mrs. Aaron Bowen of Decatur; a half-brother, Basil of Jackson. Mich.: eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchil-dren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Sloan & Sons funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p.m. today. Burial will be in Greenlawn memerial park.

Industries Pledge To Community Fund Over $6,700 Is Pledged To Date A report from Tom Allwein of Central Soya company, chairman of the industrial phase of the 1956 Community Fund drive, indicates that a total of $6,759.40 has been pledged to date by local industries. Contributions by both the employes and the companies have been reported by seven industries and one railroad. Five industries and the other two railroad companies have not yet turned in their reports to Allwein. The total amount pledged last year by all Decatur industries was $6,831, so it is believed that when the additional reports are in, the industrial contribution to Community Fund will be a sizeable increase over the 1955 donation. Industries which have completed their fund drives and the fund drive chairman for each include Central Soya company, Art Burris; Bag Service, W. Dwight Myers; Decatur Casting company, Glen Mauller; Decatur Industries, Noah Steury; General Electric company. George Laurent; Schafer company, Glenn Ellis, and the Wayne Novelty company, Robert Bradtmiller. The reports of other industries and those of volunteer workers soliciting other residents of the city are due by the end of the month, when a complete financial statement will be prepared by Robert Boch, treasurer of the Community Fund. Lyle Mallonee is general chairman of the fund drive, which has a goal of $13,400. Eighth Annual Fish Fry This Evening Crowning Os Soybean King, Queen Feature Clarence Ziner, general chairman, said today that all plans have been completed to feed the more than 1,300 persons who have purchased tickets for the eighth annual rural-urban fish fry, sponsored by the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, at the Decatur high school ag>6:3o o'clock tonight. Featured in tonight’s program will be the naming of the first Adams county soybean kiing and queen. They will be announced at the conslusion of tonight’s program. All the fish the guests can eat will be cooked under the supervision of the famous Jonah club and will be served by more than 125 members of the retail and industrial divisions of the Chamber of Commerce. Lyle Mallonee, chairman of the program committee, has announced that Miss Marlene Laurent will announce the professional part of the program and Ward Calland will be in of the arrangements for the naming of the soybean king and queen. This afternoon at 2 o'clock, the judging for the soybean variety winners was scheduled to begin. This was held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. At 2:30 o’clock this afternoon a talk was planned on soybean varieties. The winners of the top three places in each of the six classes of beans will be guests of the Chamber of Commerce at the fish fry tonight, where the best of show will be announced as the soybean king and all 18 will receive gold medals. At 3 o’clock this afternoon the elimination contests for the soybean queen was planned to start. There are 15 contestants and the ginning five win be eligible to compete in the finals a tthe fish fry this evening for the hoitor of being the Adams county soybean queen. Each of the four other girls wil be a member of the offichl court of the queen. All five girls will be presented a diamond wrist watch and the queen will receive a gold trophy.

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Car Demolished By Train At Blind Crossing Mother Seriously Injured As All Os Children Are Killed SIGOURNEY, lowa (UP)—Eight children, all members of the same family, were killed today and their mother was seriously injured when a train slammed into a car at an “almost blind” rural crossing near here. The accident took the lives of all of the children of the Richard Hammes family, including two sets of twins. Mrs. Hammes, 38, was taking the older children to school when the accident occurred. She was reported in fair condition at Keokuk county hospital. The victims were identified as 9-year-old twins Donald and Ronald; Karen, 8; Linda, 7; Gary, 6; Rosemary, 3; and 18-month-old twins, Ricky and Vicky. - A Rock Island train slammed into the family's four-door Sedan as it crossed the tracks about 2 miles east of here, scattering the bodies of the victims down the track for 684 feet. “I’ve never seen anything to compare with it." deputy sheriff Keith Bryant said. Two of the bodies were thrown beside the tracks about 70 feet from the point of impact. “There were three huddled far ~ another group and two with the mother," Bryant said. “The car was caught beneath the front of the diesel engine and ' completely demolished,” he said. The accident occurred only a few minutes after the family had set out from their farm about a mile away to take the older children to a country school a quarter of a mile on the other side of the crossing. “There was a high embankment which blocked Mrs. Hammes’ view of the tracks as the car went down a slight incline toward the crossing,” Bryant said. “It was almost a blind crossing,” he said. “The train. struck the car just about in the middle," he said, “and carried it way down the tracks.” The children’s father, Richard, about 38, had bade the family goodbye only a few minutes before and was working on a tractor in a field when the accident occurred. Called to the scene, he stood over the bodies of the children without outward sign of emotion. “He was shocked beyond any re-_, action,” Bryant said. Seven of the children were killed instantly. Ronald died shortly after arriving at the hospital. ----- The crash matched the worst auto accident in lowa history. Eight persons also died, in a car crash on July 3, 1955. i Girl Scout Calendar Sale Here Next Week The annual Girl Scout calendar sale will be conducted in Decatur during the week of Oct. 29 through Nov. 3, according to ah announcement by Mrs. Randolph Brandyberry. program chairman. The sale will be conducted by, Brownies. The calendars will sell for 25 cents and will be sold door to door.;, Any person who is not solicited and would like to purchase a calendar is asked to call Mrs. Brandyberry and she will see that a Brownie delivers one. The Decatur Brownie troops use the proft from this sale to help finance their troop projects and also to participate in community projects for others. The Brownies have been instructed to report their salts to their troop leaders,, who will in turn report to Mrs. Brandyberry Nov. 9. I