Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 256

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Crisis Causes Ike To Cancel Campaign Trip Middle East Crisis Causes Eisenhower To Cancel Out Trip By MEBRIMAN BMUU United Press White Hoose Writer WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower today cancelled his scheduled campaign trip to the Southwest and South Wednesday because of the Middle East crisis. Mr. Eisenhower was to have made airport speeches at Dallas. Tex., Oklahoma City, Okla., and Memphis, Tenn., Wednesday. But he telegraphed-his supporters at all three cities and said he must remain at the White House. ‘‘The turn of events yesterday leaves me no option, in the interest of working for peace, but to remain at the White House Wednesday to deal with the situation developing in the Middle East,” Mr. Eisenhower said. Confers on Fighting Shortly after the telegram was sent, Mr. Eisenhower conferred with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Undersecretary Herbert Hoover Jr. and other high officials on the Israeli-Egyptian fighting. Mr. Eisenhower sped back to Washington Monday night from a campaign appearance in Richmond, Va., to confer with Dulles and other top advisers on the rapidly devloping crisis in the Middle East. The White House announced after the 90-minute conference that “we will honor our pledge” to help any victim of aggression in the Arab-Israeli dispute. The White House said, however, that a decision on whether to call Congress into special session to decide whether U.S. action is required would “be decided in the light of the unfolding situation.” Day to Day Basis White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower’s future campaigning must be on a day-to-day basis. Hagerty said he could not tell now whether Mr. Eisenhower will be able to kep his scheduled campaign appearance in Philadelphia Thursday night or whether he might work in a trip to Dallas, Oklahoma City and Memphis on another day between now and the Nov. 6 elction. Bride Os 10 Days Dead Os Exposure JACKSON, Wyo. (W — Twenty-three-year old Elizabeth Pallman of Columbus, Ohio, a bride of 10 days, was found dead from exposure Monday in snow-covered Teton National Forest. ' Her husband, John Pallman. was being treated for shock and frostbite at a Jackson Hospital. - They left Columbus M days ago after their marriage, to honeymoon in the Jackson Hole area. They first got lost last Wednesday night in a snow storm: Pallman (! said they got separated by accident on Saturday, while tiding to find their way back to their car.

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Annual Halloween Parade Wednesday 16 Bands To March In Annual Parade A total of 16 bands, several floats to be sponsored by various organizations, and hundreds of masked youngsters and adults Will parade the streets of Decatur Wednesday night in the annual Callithumpian parade sponsored by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce. J Parade marshal William Bow- , ers, to be assisted by Martin ‘ Sprunger and Lyle Mallonee, has ' announced that all parade participants must be at the jail yard on ’ First street by 7 p. m. for parade formation. - 1 The parade is scheduled to bet gin promptly at 7:30 p. m. The t parade route is as follows: west t on Adams to Second, north on Second to Marshall, east on Marr shall to First, South on First to - Jackson, west on Jackson to Sec- > ond and then south on Second - back to the jail.’ . • . Final judging of masked entries ! will be done on the second trip past the judges stands, which will be located on Second street. Eri nie Atkinson is in charge of obl taining judges for the bands and ■ Cliff Brewer, general chairman of 1 arrangements for the parade, will 1 appoint the judges for other entrants. Names of the judges will ’ be withheld until after the parade. 1 The parade will be led by Miss ; Jackie Snyder, 1956 Adams county ’ soybean queen, and her court on ■ a special float. Prizes will be awarded to the top bands and to . many of the best masked indi- , vitfuals and groups. The list of bands to participate ( will include four Decatur bands , not competing for the prizes. They are Decatur Catholic high ’ school, Decatur high school, De- . catur grade school and St. Joseph’s grade school. Other bands in the parade will be Adams Central high school, Berne-French high school, Bluffton high school, Geneva high school, Huntertown high school, Monmouth high school, Monroeville high school, Ossian high school, Pleasant Mills high school, Rockford, 0., high school, Willshire, 0., high school and Wren, 0., high school. All people of the area are invited to visit Decatur Wednesday evening to watch the parade. Most of the retail stores will be open for the convenience of those who wish to shop before the parade. Following the parade will be the annual P.T.A. fall festival at the Decatur high school gymnasium. Members of the local P.T.A. will conduct games of all types and will sell refreshments. The festival is one of the major fund raising projects of the organization. f INDIANA WEATHER Increasing cloudiness follow-, ed by scattered showers and a few possible thundershowers tonight. Wednesday mostly fair west, partly'cToudy and a few showers east ending in forenoon and cooler. Low tonight mostly in the 50s. High Wednesday in the 60s. Sunset 5:46 p.m., sunrise Wednesday 7:12 a.m.

Soviet Tanks Units Pouring Into Hungary Appears Start Os New Russian Drive To Crush Rebellion By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press Staff Correspondent VIENNA (UP) — Strong Soviet tank units were reported pouring across the Czech border into Hungary today, and it appeared the Communists had tried once again to trick the rebel army into laying down its arms. The Communist-controlled Budapest Radio announced this morning that Soviet weeps were vacuating the bloodstained capital and that nationalist rebels were joining the Hungarian army in maintaining order. But United Press correspondent Russell Jones reported from Budapest itself that "strong” Soviet forces were moving into the counfrom Czechoslovakia in what appeared to be the start of a new Russian drive to crush the rebellion. In an address over Budapest Radio, Premier Imre Nagy announced again that he has asked the Russian army to leave Budapest. He said his government will start negotiations immediately for the complete withdrawal of Red forces from Hungary. Abolish One-Party System At the same time, Nagy announced the abolition of the oneparty Communist system of government and the formation of an “inner cabinet” which apparently will guide the nation toward democratic general elections. Nagy said all parties which existed and were legal in 1945 will become legal again. Minister of State Zoltan Tildy, a conservative who served as premier and president of Hungary befor the Communist takeover, spoke immediately after Nagy. Tildy told Hungarians to prepare themselves for general elctions. - "The will of the nation has conquered,” he said with apparent emotion. Another United Press dispatch from Budapest said the grim, emtConttnued on Page Five) State Mental Health Head Resigns Post Margaret Morgan - Resigns Position INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—Dr. Margaret MorgSn’s resignation as Indiana state mental health commissioner effective next January may have delayed until 1957 a permanent solution to administrative problems at Norman Beatty hospital at Westville. Dr. Mogran, heiress to the Morgan Packing Co. fortune, announced Monday she resigned Oct. 11 effective next . Jan. 15—the day a new governor is inaugurated to suceed Governor Craig. She said the resignation had nothing to do with a current controversy over the Indiana mental health program, particularly administration of the maximum security section of Beatty wher the escape of four “dangerous” insane convicts touched off administrative changes that prompted Dr. W.R. Van Den Bosch to resign as superintendent of the hospital. Dr. Morgan said when Craig appointed her in 1953, she planned to stay only during his tenure as governor. At a news conference called to announce her resignation, Dr. Morgan was critical of the two candidates for governor—Lt. Gov. Harold Handley, Republican, and Mayor Ralph Tucker, Democrat. “Neither has found time or has taken the time to look into our institutions and maybe find out reasons why the state has received national recognition,” she said. Dr. Morgan said statements attributed to Handley that he favored restoring Van Den Bosch “puts us in a bad fix.” She said nobody was likely to accept an appointment as superintendent for only a few months subject to removal by the next governor. “I have been told Dr. Van Den Bosch is a personal friend of Handley,” Dr. Morgan said. The controversy over Beatty brought a hood of reaction from individuals and organizations, some backing Dr. Morgan and others backing Van Den Bosch. Craig suorted Dr. Morgan. “One of the trials of this position,” Dr. Morgan said, “has been .that uninformed individuals for this field. Some of our people in politics have assumed a purely biased vfewoint ana have made no attemt to find out the true facts, or if they have been given these facts, they have not sen fit to use them.”

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesd ay, October 30, 1956

United States Calls On U.N. Security Council Order Cease-Fire Now

Egypt's Air Force Sent In Action Today Report Israeli's Offensive Is 126 Mies Inside Egypt JERUSALEM (W — Egypt's Soviet-equipped air force went into action today against an Israeli lightning offensive that reportedly had carried 126 miles inside Egypt at its deepest penetration to within 12 miles of the Suez Canal. An Egyptian communique claimed two Israeli planes were shot down and 12 armored vehicles were destroyed. It said "heavy” losses had been inflicted on the Israeli forces. The Egyptian communique said Israel’s swift offensive which had reached almost to within gunshot range of the Suez Canal was blunted and “brought to a complete standstill. 1 ’ An official Israeli announcement in Tel Aviv, said Israeli had captured the Kusseima road junction, about 6 miles west of the Israeli frontier in Egypt’s Sinai desert. Denies Army Near Canal Israel Foreign Office Director. Walter Eytan said the broad operation was designed solely to wipe out Egyptian suicide commando bases in the Sinai peninsula. Eytan added that the Israeli army was not in the Suez Canal Zone, although reports had placed some of its units as close as 12 miles away from the vital waterway. The attack started Monday from southern Israel near the Gulf of Aqaba and speared straight across the desert to positions west of El Nekhl. Egypt .geared for massive retaliation. All servicemen on leave were ordered to report back to their posts immediately, the semiofficial Midwest News Agency reported in Cairo. he Cairo afternoon newspaper Al Misaa bannerlined news of a. general mobilization and said j President Gamal Abdel Nasser had decreed a general call-up of reserves. > Iraq Ready To Fight In Baghdad, an Iraq government spokesman said Iraqi forces were poised on the Jordanian borber ready to leap to Egypt’s aid. But no request for help had come from Egypt, he added. In London, British and French government leaders met to align their policies prior to today’s United Nations Security Council tContiiiuea on Eieiiii Decatur Lions Club Meets Last Evening L District Governor Visits Local Club The Decatur Lions club held its weekly dinner meeting at the Youth and Community Center Monday evening, with Harry Schwartz, president, in charge. Chester Hite, governor of Lions district 25-B, paid his official visit to the club and spoke briefly on the activities of Lions in this district and the growth and impact of Lionism elsewhere. After the meeting,- he met with the club’s board of directors to conclude his visit. Lawrence Anspaugh, program chairman, outlined coming events and introduced O. M. McGeath, director of the Center, who reported on his participation in the golden jubilee convention of the national recreation association, held recently in Philadelphia. McGeath reported that the local center and its activities compare most favorably with similar projects elsewhere. He stated th a t local attendance far exceeds that at other centers in cities the size of Decatur. Frank Lybarger presented a check to Leo Seltenright, club treasurer, for sales In gum ball machines.

Mass Evacuation Os Americans Started Mass Evacuation Is Started In Egypt ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (ffß) — A’ mass evacuation of Americans from Egypt began early today when nearly 350 residents and their wives began boarding the American export lines ship Exochorda. The 9,644-ton vessel was sched- ' uled to leave Alexandria for j Naples, Italy, before sundown today. Its passengers will include 250 employes and their dependents ' of the American Sahara Petroleum J Co., the largest single U. S. con- ' cern operating in Egypt, which is prospecting for oil in the western 1 desert. The Exochordo was called to Alexandria to help evacuate the 1 Americans after Egyptian authori--1 ties closed Cairo Airport Monday night following the Israeli attack ' on Egyptian territory. A British Overseas Airways Corp, airliner that was to take the Americans to Rome was detained overnight at the airport, but was permitted to leave today with 10 ; American evacuees aboard. At the same time, big transport I planes shuttled between Mirrle f East trouble spots and Beirut ; Lebanon, to evacuate families heeding President Eisenhower’s warning to leave as sooij as post sible. -b , One family left Jordan‘so quicka ly they didn’t have time to pick > up the silverware from the dinner table. i u ; General Election , Is One Week Away Tumult, Shouting Dies Down In Week By SAM NEWLUND • United Press Staff Correspondent ’ ■ INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — One week from today, the tumult and the shouting cease. The Nov. 6 election campaign will be past history, voters will be registering - their decisions at the polls, and J the candidates will be waiting for word on how they fared. The last week of campaign oratory found Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson combing the hinterlands along the Ohio River in a search for Hoosier Republican votes. Most of the national campaigners, however, already have been here or do not plan to visit Indiana. Vice President Richard Nixon came three times and touched key cities of Indianapolis, Evansville, Fort Wayne and South Bend, wooing votes for the GOP ticket he represents. Adlai Here Twice 1 Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic presidential nominee, invaded Indiana twice. He spoke in Indianapolis and later at South Bend. Stevenson’s running mate, Sen. Estes Kefauver, also devoted some time to Indiana. The only one of the four major candidates on the national tickets to skip Indiana was President Eisenhower. There are no present plans for him to visit Hoosierland, and time is growing short. The four major candidates on the state ticket have been going to and fro like busy ants storing food for the winter. They will keep up the pace the rest of this week, easing off Sunday and Monday and heading for home to cast their ballots. Before Mayor Ralph Tucker returns. to Terre Haute to cast his ballot, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee will appear Tuesday night at LaPorte, Wednesday at French Lick and Terre Haute, Thursday at Lawrenceburg, Friday at Elkhart and Saturday at Indianapolis. Handley to LaPorte Tucker’s Republican opponent, Lt. Gov. Harold W. Handley, will vote in LaPorte. His last week of campaigning includes appearances Tuesday in South Bend and Mishawaka, Wednesday in Fort Wayne, Angola and Auburn; Thursday in Evansville; Friday in Lafayette, and Saturday in Plymouth, Michigan City, Valparaiso and LaPorte. Sen. Homer E. Capehart, a Re(ContlaueS «■ P**e Eight)

Great Britain, France Ready To Use Troops To Send Troops To Suez Canal Zone If Fighting Continues LONDON (IP) — Britain and France said today they would send troops into the Suez Canal Zone unless all fighting is stopped within 12 hours. In a report to the House of Commons following an urgent conference here with French leaders, British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden said ultimatums to that effect had been delivered to Egypt and Israel. “In these, we have called upon both sides to stop all warlike action by land, sea and air forthwith and to withdraw their military forces to a distance of 10 miles from the canal. “The governments of Egypt and Israel have been asked to answer this communication within 12 hours.” Eden, who had conferred previously with his cabinet and then with French Premier Guy Mollet and their respective foreign ministers, added: “It has ..been made clear to them Egypt and Israel that, if at the expiration of that time, one or both have not undertaken to comply with these requirements, British and French forces will intervene in whatever strength may be necessary to secure compliance. “In order to separate the belligerents and to guarantee freedom of transit through the canal by the ships of all nations, we have asked the Egyptian government to agree that Anglo-French forces should move temporarily into key positions at Port Said, Ismailia and Suez. “I repeat, ‘temporarily’,” Eden said. Three-Year-Old Girl Is Killed By Truck INDIANAPOLIS (W — Martha Watford, 3, Indianapolis, was injured fatally Monday when a truck struck her as she ran from an alley into a street near her home. Irma Bultemeier Is Taken By Death Preble Resident Dies At Hospital Mrs. Irma Bultemeier, 58, wife of Louis Bultemeier, of Preble, died at 11:15 o’clock Monday morning at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where she had been a patient four weeks. She was born In Adams county May 10, 1898, a daughter of Ernest and Minnie Fuhrman-Doehrman, and was married to Louis Bultemeier Dec. 11, 1919. Mrs. Bultemeier was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim. Surviving in addition to the husband are three sons, Norman of Arcola, and Richard and Vernon, both of Fort Wayne; eight grandchildren; four brothers, Arthur, Gerry, and Ralph Doehrman of Fort Wayne, and Rudy Doehrman of Detroit, Mich.; and four sisters, Mrs. Martha Brandenburg and Mrs. Luella Guy of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Hilda Bauermeister of Ossian, and Mrs. Dora Fleming of Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2:30 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim, the Rev. A. A. Fenner officating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Teen Drive Thursday On Community Fund Teenagers To Make Canvass Thursday David Heimann of Decatur Catholic high school and Fred Schott of Decatur high school, cochairmen of the city’s teen project to aid the Community Fund drive, have announced that the teenage drive will be conducted in the city Thursday evening. The teenagers hope to raise enough money to complete die 1956 Community Fund drive goal of $13,400. According to Robert Boch, treasurer of the fund, a total of $10,033.58 has been reported to date by volunteer solicitors and the industrial phase. $7,094 of this amount was contributed by local industries and their employes. The teenage drive to be conducted Thursday evening will feature a door-to-cfcor canvass of the city by most of Decatur’s teenagers. Each teen will be working in his or her own neighborhood. The teens who have complete charge of all arrangements sor 1, the drive have adopted “Light up the town for the Community Chest” as their slogan. At each house where money is contributed, the donors will be asked to turn on their porch lights for about a half hour. The teens hope to turn on every porch light In the city. They will ask for only “small change” donations from each residence. All money collected will be given to the Community Fund, which among other things supports youth activities at the Decatur Youth and Community Center and provides playground equipment for the city’s parks. The teenagers have' also planned a project for Wednesday night in the «Callithumpian parade. The youngsters will carry a large American flag in the parade, preceded with a sign asking on-lookers to toss coins for the Community Fund into the flag as it passes by. Co-chairmen Heimann and Schott have issued a request that the adults of the city support the teenagers project to help Decatur. They wish to remind all Decatur residents that the Community Fund is a worthy cause which contributes much to the well-be-ing of the city. They have agreed to help in the campaign since a good share of the money helps the youth organizations and activities in Decatur. The Decatur teens have also issued an expression of appreciation to the Monmouth high school students who have donated to the Decatur Community Fund. New Registration Forms For Vehicles New Forms Being Printed By State The Indiana bureau of motor vehicles is now printing the new registration forms to be used for the purchase of 1957 motor vehicle registrations. In order to print the better than two million, which are being mailed out, the bureau necessarily has to start at an early date. Commissioner Morris J. Carter announced today that registrations for all motor vehicles in Adams county are being mailed and he is urging that all person who receive their applications put them where they will be available when they go into the auto license branches during January and February. Having these registrations will assist in the speedy issuance of licenses at the time of the application. Without these, it will be necessary that the owners produce their did .registration, form or title which would necessitate complete typing of a new registration form. Commissioner Carter estimated that total vehicle registrations in Adams county in 1957 would exceed 8,500. License bureal branches are located at Decatur, Berne and Geneva.

Ask Immediate Order To Halt Mideast Fire Seek Withdrawal Os Israel Troops To Own Borders UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (IB — The United States asked the United Nations Security Council today to issue an immediate order for a cease-fire in the Israeli-Egyptian fighting and for the withdrawal of Israel’s troops to its own borders.' U. S. ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., opening the council’s extraordinary session on the Palestine situation, said each member has a “clear-cut responsibility to take immediate measures to restore peace" in the Middle East. He gave notice that the U. S. would submit a* resolution, to the council this afternoon calling for the withdrawal of Israeli forces and asking for steps to insure that they are withdrawn. Asks Cease Fire Secretary - General Dag Hammarskjold reposted to the council that Maj.-Gen. E. L. M. Burns of Canada, chief of the U. N. truce supervision organization in Palestine, had asked for a cease-fire to , be effective at noon, local time, to«. ... day. He said Burns had pointed out that both sides were bound to keep . the peace under the Palestine armistice agreement and the cease-fire arranged by Hammarskjold himself last April. “Sc far,” he said, “I have no — information concerning any replies by the governments of Israel and Egypt.” Says Action Shocked U. 8. “It comes as a shock to us in the U.S. government that this development should have occurred less than 24 hours after President Eisenhower sent his second appeal to the prime minister of Israel,” Lodge said, He gave the council a quick rundown of official announcements from Israel and Egypt concerning the fighting and said: “These events make the necessity for this meeting all too plain. Failure by the council to react at this time would be an avoidance of its responsibility to maintain peace and security. “The government of the U. S. feels it imperative that the coun» cil act in the promptest manner to determine whether a breach of the peace has occurred, to have a cease-fire ordered immediately and to obtain the withdrawal of Israel’s forces behind the armistice demarcation line. “Nothing less will suffice.” “Invitation to Disaster” He said that to date, a ceasefire order from Maj.-Gen. E. L. M. Buras of Canada, chief of the U. N. truce supervision organization in Palestine, had been ignored. ‘< v 'nt'nufO nr> >a.*e Eimt) Blames Salt Spray For TV Blackout ASBURY PARK, N. J. (IB — Pow- -- er company officials today blamed a salt spray for causing a virtual television blackout and several power failures in the north Jersey shore area during the week end. The spray, finally blown out to sea Monday, coated television antennas so thickly that reception was blacked out in many areas. Wage Increase For Casting Employes J Donald McDaniel, president of the Decatur Casting Co., today announced that an agreement had been reached with the United Steelworkers of America for an across the board increase of 10 cents per hour for employes, effective as of yesterday. The two-year contract signed last October between the company and the union was subject to a wage reopener clause only. Agreement was reached after one meeting, pursuant to a wage repoener notice from the company.

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