Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 254, Decatur, Adams County, 27 October 1956 — Page 1

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Ike Goes To Hospital For Physical Exam To Take Tbonwgh ' Examination Prior To Nov. 6 Election By UNITED PRESS President Eisenhower enters Walter Reed Hospital in Washington today for the thorough physical examination which he promised the public he would undergo before the election. The President will remain in the hospital for 24 hours. Results of be made known late Sunday afternoon or Sunday night. > ’ hir.. EiesenhOwer, was reported confident the. doctors WIH RM him in good physical condition. The President wa* considered by his aides to be to such fine shape that he extended his campaign schedule? ■ ’ While the nation awaited the doctors' report, 'Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson made his final tour of California, which casts 32 of the 266 electoral votes needed to elect a president Nixon In California Vice President Richard M. Nixon also campaigned in California and his opponent. Sen. Estes Kefauver, stumped through Maryland. Stevenson was expected to resume his attack on Nixon and continue his appeal for an approach to ending all atomic and thermonuclear tests. Friday night at Albuquerque and earlier Friday at Rock Island, ill., Stevenson defended his stand on the hydrogenbomb issue, calling the arms race "madness.” Nixon was concentrating on the theme that voters not only must elect a Republican president but also must choose a Republican , House and Senate. He said at Medford. Ore. Friday night that independents who vote for Mr. Eisenhower and Democratic con- . gressional candidates will be giving the President “only half a vote.” Cites Cast Os Living Kefauver dwelt on the government's report this week of a rise in the cost of fivifig. He said in a speech prepared for delivery in the Maryland city of Hagerstown that the Republicans have campaigned on the prosperity themes but that the latest economic news has been "bad.” In an unexpected development, former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes Friday night announced his support of Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va) for president. Byrnes, former governor of South Carolina, said he was going to vote for an independent because he disapproved of Mr. Elsenhower and Stevenson's stands of the civil rights issue. He endorsed Mr. Eisenhower in 1952 because he felt he was better qualified for the p r es i d e n c y, Byrnes Said Friday night. Since then he said he has become dissatisfied with toe PfesMent's jtoU* cy On integration.

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Woman Sentenced To Electric Chair First Woman To Be Sentenced In State CROWN POINT, Ind. ffl - Mrs. Opal Collins, 25 > was sentenced Fri- • day night to become toe first woman to die to Indiana’s electric chair for killing her paralyzed husband and three members of his family.. The woman collapsed and was carried from the courtroom when Judge Williaip J. Murray sentenc--2 ed her to die on Feb. 15. ' The jury debated Mrs. Collins’ , fate for 22 hqurs before coming to a decision late Friday. Defense » Attorney Cleve Stenhouse would f not comment on whether or not he . planned an appeal. The dark-haired Mrs. Collins. 1 who first married at age 14, was i divorced twice before wedding > crippled Ben Collins last May. ; Within 26 days after the ceremony, t the bride had slaughtered her hus- - band while he sat helpless in his wheel chair. His mother, Mrs. s Julia Collins, 48, and his sisters, - Martha, 14, agd Mary, 11, were - also killed. ; Mrs. Collins blamed her shoot- ’ ing rampage on the family’s animosity towards her. Her husband’s mother, the defendant testified, had threatened her to either get ' out or be thrown out. Immediately after the court rei cessed, several members of the Collins family went to the bench ■ to congratulate Judge Murray. • Little Bobby Collins, 6, brother-in-i law of the doomed woman, and ■ also the state’s star witness, t bounced onto Murray’s lap and t kissed him. The defnse had based its case ■ on the contention that Mrs. Collins j was temporarily insane when she shot down the family. Two court- • appointed psychiatrists, however, ’ damaged her cause by offering the t opinion that she was sane when i she began to shoot. As the jury read its verdict, Mrs. Collins sat motionless with a handkerchief over her eyes. Sten- ■ house then polled the jury. She stumbled forward to be i sentenced at the judges bench but slumped to the floor when her fate was pronounced. Chief deputy prosecutor Floyd i C. Vance trmed the vrdict “a i tremendous victory on the side of i justice.” i "This is a perfect example of the victory of law through justice," he added. The prosecution had insisted that the shootings were premeditated, and that Mrs. Collins was ; a calculating "gold digger.” The l jury was told that she married the I 28-year-old Collins to get his Army disability check. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Low tonight in the low 40s. High Sunday near 70. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and mild with showers likely Monday afternoon and night. I NOON EDITION -

France, West Germany Sign Pact On Saar Age-Old Quarrel On Resources-Rich Territory Is Ended LUXEMBOURG (UP) — France and West Germany today ended their age-old quarrel over the re-source-rich Saar. French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau and West German Foreign Minister Heinrich Von Brentano signed a treaty which eliminated the last major power-key issue from Western Europe. The treaty restores toe 900-square-mile coal and rich Saar and its 970,000 German-speaking inhabitants politically to Germany next Jan. 1. The economic return will take place Jan. 1, 1960, after a three year interim period during which toe French-Saar eco.nomic, customs and currency union will be gradually scrapped. The signing ceremony took place in toe foreign office of this ducal capital midway between Paris and Bonn. It was in this city that French Premier Guy Mollet and -West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer broke through toe logjam of disagreement and thrashed out the broad lines of’ the historic pact. Mollet and Adenauer agreed that toe treaty sweeps aside the last remaining barrier to close friendship between the two countries, once regarded as "traditional enemies,” and reinforces European unity. When the treaty is ratified by toe parliaments of France and West Germany, the Saar will become the 10th state in toe West German federal republic and send deputies to the Bonn Parliament. Spiritual Emphasis Week Ends Sunday No Service Tonight In Week's Services > A large crowd filled toe First i Methodist church Friday night for i Spiritual Emphasis week services. • Attendance continues higher each night than at any time in recerfS ’ years. > Using toe message to the church ■ at Ephesus, as written in the book I of Revelation, the Rev. William ■ Hill, from Indianapolis, spoke on the general theme of what God requires for a vital church. "God requires work! We do not,” he said, “dream or talk our Church strong. We have enough idle dreamers and enough of those who only criticize: what we desperately need are those who will labor in love for toe Kingdom of God. God requires zeal! Vital zeal is that which does not allow the church to degenerate into a social dub in which membership is easy. Zeal proclaims membership vows as exacting and demanding and strives unflinchingly to maintain the standards of Christ as the goal for all who join. In toe early church.” said Rev. Hill, "members who violated their membership vows were pus on trial before toe congregation. God requires patience! Especially he demands it when things do not just go our way. We need it when our feelings get hurt. Patience leads us not to quit. In Christian patience we smile and remain loyal to our church and to our Christ!" Throughout hjs message, Rev. Hill stressed that inner power is toe difference. Trying to maintain a vital church without it, he said, “is like trying to life ourselves by our own bootstraps. Maintain love and power and we can lose all else. Keep these vital elements and we find life eternal!” There will be no Saturday night service. Spiritual Emphasis week will conclude with two services Sunday evening. The annual youth rally will be held at the Church of God on Cleveland street at 6 o’clock At 7:30 toe closing worship service will be held in the First Methodist phurch. The Rev. William Feller will preside, the Rev. flenjamin Thomas will lead in (Continued on rag-e Five) No Investigation Os Power Plant Plans FORT WAYNE (W — The federal Securities and Exchange Commission,, will not investigate plans by toe Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. to set up a power plant in Sullivan County on toe Wabash River, I&M officials said Friday. Officials of toe utility said they received a telegram from toe commission in Washington which said a request for an investigation by the Public Service Company ow Indiana. Inc., was denied.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 27,1956

Hungarian Revolution Continues; Russ Rush Troop Reinforcements

Report Unrest Os Students In East Germany Demand Ouster Os ’i Real Power Behind Communist Regime ; By JOSEPH FLEMING United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN (UP) — Non-Commuf nist students in East Germany £ apparently heartened by toe anti-1 Soviet revolt in Hungary,, have; demanded the ouster of old-line’ Stalinist Walter Ulbricht, real power behind the Red regime, it was learned today. They also called on the government for Democratic reforms. It was student unrest in Hungary that ignited toe reyolution against the Red Budapest regime. Reports reaching West Berlin said students at the Humboldt University in East Berlin demanded the rsignation from government and party by Ulbricht, the Communist "strongman.” Unrest was also reported in East German factories. “Tell the truth. You’re lying," workers were said to have shouted at Communist officials who toured factories to denounce the Hungarian revolt as a fascist movement? Ulbricht ana other Central Committee members visited factories in an effort to check unrest there, it was reported. Ulbricht told workers in East Berlin's telcommunicatioris factory that any revolt attempt would be crushed. The Communist Party newspaper Neues Deutschland quoted him as saying "the assault of reactionary forces in Hungary should have been nipped in the bud.” Reports coming into West Berlin said the East German students clamored for institution of Democratic reforms. - • Proclaims Nov. 11 As Veterans Day WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower has proclaimed Nov. 11 as Veterans Day. He directed that the U.S. flag be displayed on all public buildings. Formerly known as Armistice Day, the commemoration was redesignated two years ago to, expand its significance to World War II and the Korean War as well as World War I. World Community Day On November 2 Special Service At Presbyterian Church World Community Day, sponsored by the united council of church women, will be observed in Decatur next Friday. Nov. 2, with a service at the Jgirst Presbyterian church. As part of this world wide observance, good used clothing will be collected for shipment for such desperately needed areas as India, Pakistan, Korea, Near East, Japan, Greece, Italy. Germany and Hong Kong, all sent under toe label of “parcels for peace." Badly needed are good, warm clothes for men, women, and children, yards of strong denim, in three-yard lengths, and blankets. These parcels are to be taken to toe Presbyterian church next Friday, and from here will be shipped to church world service centers, from there they will be distributed throughout the world where most needed. The offering received at toe special service next Friday night will be devoted to supporting projects and extension of the programs and study and action of the united church women, and also to aid toe department of inter-church aid and service to refugees of the world council of churches. Further details on the service and plans for the local observance will be announced next week.

Plane Crashes Into Mountain, Four Die Four Crewmen Die In Flying Boxcar NEWVILLE, Pa. (W — Authorities investigated the crash of an ■ Air Force C-119 Flying Boxcar that took the lives of four crewmen when it slammed into the side of a mountain here Friday night. State troopers guarded the wreckage until personnel from toe , Olmstead Air Force Base, Middle- < town, Pa. arrive to supervise the ' Removal of toe bodies. i The men were killed instantly ; when their plane rammed a rainsoaked mountain slope and exploded In an isolated section of Perry County. Olmstead officials said identification would be made by the Stewart Air Forcfe Base at Smyrna, Tenn., where the plane had taken off en route to Olmstead. Their names will not be released until next of kin have been notified. The failure of the plane to make a scheduled landing at Olmstead was the indirect cause of a near tragedy involving another twin-en-gined Air Force plane. A C 46 enroute from Olpahe, Kan. Air Station to New Castle, Del. Air Force 1 Base, radioed Olmstead it would 1 land there because of bad weather ' over Ceptral Pennsylvgnh. - But Olmetead told the C 46 pilot, ; Ist Lt. Walter Bachman, 34 Doyles- ’ town, Pa., not Jo-land because the ■ Flying Boxcar was overdue. Bach1 man headed east towards Philadel2 phia but ran out of fuel. He made a near-perfect landing - in a cornfield on the farm of Aaron * E. Esh, near Intercourse, Pa. His f crew included Ist Lt. Thomas ’ Clark, 35, of Neptune, N. J,, copilot ! and Airman Second Class Henry La Roche, 25, New Castle, Del., 1 crew chief-. ’SOBS Wickard Proposes Farm Aid Program Six-Point Program By Claude Wickafd LOWELL, Ind. (UP)—Claude R. Wickard, Democratic candidate for senator, presented a six-point program to aid small farmers at a party rally Friday night: 1. Inrceased technical assistance. 2. Special credit programs. 3. Low interest rates. 4. Special provisions in the price support programs to meet the small farmer’s needs. 5. Enlarged soil conservation allowances. 6. Choice of alternative adjustment plans under a “properly administered soil bank plan without penalty on other agricultural programs.” Earlier, at a joint United Auto Workers - United Steelworkers union meting in Gary, he said "Republican orators have laid down a heavy scren of smoke to cover toe anti-labor actions of the Administration they are trying to defend." Casper Miller Rites On Monday Morning Funeral services for Casper J. Miller, who died Thursday night, will be held at 9 a. m. Monday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz. officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Pallbearers will be Bob Eiting, Oscar Miller, Jerome Kohne, Elmo Miller, Herman Miller and James Miller. Honorary pallbearers from the K. of C. Fourth Degree will be George Schultz, William Lose, Sr., Charles J. Miller, Severin Schurger, Herman Geimer and Carl Geimer. The Third Order of St. Francis will recite toe rosary at the Gillig & Doan funeral home immediately after church services this evening. Included in the survivors is a daughter, Mrs. Lowell Hawbaker of near Decatur.

China Rioters Roam Streets Os Singapore Sporadic Battles t Os Police, Rioters Continuing In City > SINGAPORE (IP) — Bands of ■ Communist-led Chinese rioters s roamed the streets of Singapore today, stacking a police post and - isolating the airport. The government lifted a night- . long curfew for office and factory - workers at 6:30 a. m. despite spoI radic battles between police and r rioters armed with clubs and t homemade bombs. Police said a > steady drizzle failed to dampen ’ the ferocity of the mobs which . stoned automobiles and dragged t passengers from passing taxi cabs. Authorities said at least 13 per- ' sons have been killed and 99 in- ; jured since student demonstrations erupted into a full-scale riot Thursday. A police spokesman could confirm only 78 injuries. About 300 Scottish troops moved ; into the city from their Malayan * border posts to help police in their r efforts to quell the rioters. Fifty Scottish troops helped police clear a big' school bufleHng of 1.000 ’ students in the area where severe al clashes occurred Friday. Helicopters hovered over the '* city, dropping tear gas bombs on trouble areas. " g Chiei Minister Tangay Abdul n Rahman of Malay branded the s riots as Communist-inspired and s said they showed “there are more < Communists in Singapore than we y care to have.” » 1 Abandon Search For Five Missing Airmen MADRID (UP)—The U.S. Air Force today abandoned its search for five airmen missing in a small, single-engine airplane since Mon-* day. Two officers in the plane were making an aerial inspection tour of an oil pipeline when the plane disappeared. Three enlisted men aboard were en route to Barcel- ■ ona. a > Soybean Ball Held Here Friday Night Miss Jackie Snider. Presides As Queen Miss Jackie Snider, 1956 Adams county soybean queen, reigned at the first annual soybean ball Friday night at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. She and her court led the grand march. Music for the dance was presented by Carl Geels and his orchestra. The dance followed a parade down Second street escorting the queen to the center. Richard Kershner, general chairman of this part of the soybean program, has expressed his appreciation to the water department for the loan of a small generator used on a truck during the parade, the Sprunger implement company for the use of the truck and the various car dealers who entered cars. Dale Morrissey and Joe Kaehr assisted at the dance. The final event of the three day first annual soybean festival will take place at 9 p. m. in front of the court house when a load of soybeans, to be at least 100 bushels will be given away. (Contlnu*d on Page Five) Navy Day Celebrated In Tribute To Jones WASHINGTON (UP)—The Navy today celebrated Navy Day with a tribute to one of its first heroes —John Paul Jtones. Memorial services were planned at Jones’ statue and the Navy invited the public to take a look at a new destroyer named the John Paul Jones. . <1 •

Areas Os Indiana Blanketed By Frost Heaviest Coating Os Season In Indiana By UNITED PRESS A frost which the weather bureau termd "moderate” blanketed areas of Indiana early today with the heaviest coating of the season. Although the mercury did not reach record lows for this autumn, ' it dropped one degree below ! freezing at Ft. Wayne and Lafayette and touched 32 degreeis -at 1 South Bend. Even Evansville came within a whisker of freezing • temperatures. The low there was 35. The Indianapolis area and the I Lafayette area were singled out I by the weather bureau as “modi erate frost” sections. * i Despite the cool, frosty temperai tures, no cold spell was in the I making. I Weathermen forecast highs today of 65 to 68 and lows tonight ■ in the low to mid-40s. Sunday will - be marked by peak temperatures - near 70, and Monday’s outlook is t partly cloudy and mild with showi ers likely. » Prospects of additional rain Suni day were wiped out by newer forei casts which indicated mostly fair r tonight and Sunday throughout <f Hoosierland. . - r High temperatures Friday 0 ranged from 61 at Fbrt "Wayne to 66 at Evansville. ’ Precipitation during the 24-hour e period ending at 7:30 a.m. today n included .33 of an inch at South Bend, believed to be that city’s , heaviest rain since last August; 1 .32 at Fort Wayne, .28 at Indianapolis, .05 at Lafayette and .01 at “ Evansville, e . e .«... Decatur Youth To Canvass For Needy , To Ring Doorbells Here Monday Night Magic will be jierformed by De- : catur youth from the community churches who will ask the resi- • dents of Decatur to help them treat 1 children overseas through the Unit- ' ed Nations international children’s emergency fund. When doorbells ring throughout the city Monday evening, Decatur residents will hear costumed youngsters say “Trick or 'Treat of UNICEF.” 131686 youngsters will be out to help needy children rather than to plague the neighboorhood with Halloween pranks. The Decatur ministerial association has organized the youth of their churches in groups who will ; cover the city between 6 and 8 p.rn. Each participant will be identified by orange arm bands and an orange tag bearing the initials UNICEF. They will be asking people to drop coins in the milk tons which they will be carrying. Nickels and dimes dropped into the cartons will supply milk, essential drugs like penicillin and DDT to control malaria in other parts of the world. Many countries lac kthe resources and skills to solve the basic health and welfare problems of their children. It is impossible for them to progress until help is provided through agencies like UNICEF. The Rev. Vir'gil Sexton, pastor of the First Methodist church, is in charge of the Halloween collection program. The Smith Pure Milk company has donated the milk cartons to be used in the col(Conttnued on Page Five) Monroe Area Farmers Meet Monday Night All farmers of the Monroe area are invited to attend a meeting at the Adams Central high school study hall Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock. Purpose of the meeting is to discuss the possibility of providing fire protection for the rural area, around Monroe. In a sufficient number of the farmers are interested, an association will be formed and a round table discussion will be held regarding purchase of a fire truck.

Say Fighting More Intense In Budapest New Government Is Formed In Effort To End Revolution By RUSSELL JONES United Frew Staff Correspondent VIENNA' 1 tt/P)— Premier Itnfe Nagy V fqrjsM’, a ’new “national government in the smoldering blood-stained ruins of Budapest today but the Hungarian antiCommunist revolution went on. Diplomatic reports reaching London said the fighting in Budapest today is “more intense . . . the situation, if anything has worsened.’ They said the Russians are rushing reinforcements to the Hungarian capital. * In the Hungarian border town of Magyar Ovar, a rebel colonel told United Press Correspondent Kurt Neubauer that the anti-Commu-nists control all of Hungary “where there are no Russians.” He said the rebels are massing for' a march on Budapest “to ' there.” . The colonel also said the rebels will appeal to the United States r and other Western powers, “to > helri ma: figfit for freedom.” Tne new government included r two former prominent rightwing r politicians of the Catholic Small--1 holder Party which was smashed ; by the Communists in the 1947 ; coup. They are Zoltan Tildy, for--1 mer president and premier, and t Bela Kovacs, .who was arrestd as a spy by Soviet secret police almost 10 years ago. Budapest Radio -broadcast the Red regime’s latest desperate bid to placate rebels fighting against the tanks and guns of the Soviet army and Hungarian secret police for the fifth day. But like the appointment of “Titoist” Nagy as premier in the first hours of the revolt, and the ouster of “Stalinist” Ernoe Geroe as Communist Party secretary, appeared to have come too late. Heavy Fighting Continues Heavy fighting raged in Budapest itself and to the West, near the Austrian border. The rebels controlled the main western approaches to Budapest and three other key areas bordering on Czechoslovakia to the North and Yugoslavia to the Sputh. Budapest radio announced the formation of the new government with Nagy as prepuer at 11:26 a.m. (4:20 a.m. CST). It skid the cabinet was swdrn in and took office immediately. The vital ppst of minister of" interior went Ao Ferenc Muennich, recently-designated ambassador to Belgrade, and\believgd to be ,an advocate of the “independent” Communist line. The ministry controls all police and security forces. Tildy was appointed state minister. Kovacs was named minister of agriculture. First Postwar President Tildy, 57, was the first postwar president of the Hungarian Republic. Resigned in July 1948 after his son-in-law was arrested on charges of treason. Viktor Csornoky, the son-in-law, was later hanged. Kovacs was secretary-general of the Smallholders Party and a member of Parliament until the Reds took over nine years ago. Parliament refused to lift his immunity and the Soviets thereupon moved in and arrested him on espionage charges. But the new government, “liberal” as it may be compared to the iron-fisted regime ousted by the continuing revolt, appeared to have come too late. In a desperate bid to crush the anti-Reds, the Communist regime earlier orderd loyal Soviet Hun(Oontinued on Page Five) New Army Reserve Center Dedicated FORT WAYNE (UP) -Assistant Army Secretary Hugh M. Milton II was scheduled to speak today at dedication ceremonies for a n«* 600-man $435,000 Army Reserve f

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