Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 258, Decatur, Adams County, 1 November 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 258.

HEADS FOR SECRET DESTINATION I SHIPS OF the U. S. Atlantic fleet’s Killer croup No. 2, Including the aircraft carrier Antietam (shown taking on fuel in Korean waters in February, 1953), have been ordered to break off a visit to the Netherlands and sail for a secret destination. Because of the Middle East crisis there was speculation that the ships wijl join units of the U.S. Sixth fleet now in the eastern Mediterranean. Adams County Citizens Are Urged To Vote

Five days from today about 10,000 Adams county residents will Mi the millions all over the nation in casting ballots for local, state and national candidates. Judging from attendance at political rallies in Decatur and other parts of the-county held by both parties, interest in the 1956 genefal election is high. About 10,000 of the more than 12,000 registered voters are expected to go to the polls. County clerk Richard Lewton stated that about 250 applications for absentee ballots have already been received at his office and more are expected before Saturday, which is the deadline for applying for absentee ballots. The clerk's office will remain open Saturday afternoon for the benefit of last minute absentee voters. Personnel in the clerk’s office are kept busy with last minute election preparations. Ballots, poll books and other election materials are being prepared for the 39 Adams county precincts. Inspectors at the precincts this year will be Democratic since the county voted a majority to the Democratic candidate for secretary of state in the previous election. These inspectors will receive their instructions from county clerk Lewton Friday night. Both parties have completed their election boards to staff the polls on election day. The complete list of election day workers will be announced soon. _ . Urged To Vote Intensive a p p e a1 s are being made in the final days of the campaign by all candidates and party workers. Special emphasis is being made on the urging of registered voters to cast their ballots. Dr. Harry He.bble, county Democratic chairman, and Harry (Peck) Essex, county Republican chairman, today issued statements requesting voters to recognize their duty and their privilege of participating in a free election. They pointed out that every person’s vote is important. Both parties have arranged to give assistance to any prospective voters who wishes it. Rides to and from ’ the polls and baby-sitters will be available at both headquarters. Persons who wish to take advantage of this service may contact Democratic headquarters, 3-2634, or Republican headquarters, 3-2580. Four Ballots Voters entering the polls this year will receive four ballots — county, state, national and time referendum. 1116 time referendum vote will be for the purpose of informing and guiding the state ‘ legislature in settling the “crazyquilt” time situation in the state of Indiana. Four questions are asked on the referendum ballot: 1) Do you favor the retention of central standard time as the official time for the state of Indiana? 2> If you favor the retention of central standard time for the state of Indiana, do you favor legalizing the adoption of daylight savings time for certain periods of the year by the various political subdivisions /of the state? 3) Do you favor the adoption of eastern standard time as the official time for the state of Indiana? 4) If you favor eastern standard time-as the official time for the state of Indiana, do you favor leagalizing the adoption of daylight savings time for certain periods of the year by the various political subdivisions of the state? The national ballot for the presidential race will include four tickets — Adlai E. Stevenson and Es(ContinueQ on rag® 81x>

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United States To Stay Out Os I Mid-East War l r President Pledges 1 No Involvement In , Middle East War. ; WASHINGTON (UP)—The White ; House said today that this country’s United Nations moves were , “one way” of honoring its 1950 ’ pledge to aid victims of aggres- [ sion in the Middle East. It was silent, however, on wheth- , er the administration is considering any other means of fulfilling . the 1950 pledge to which Xhis coun- , try subscribed along with Great ' Britain and France. President Eisenhower announced in a broadcast to the nation , Wednesday night that "there will ' be no U.S. involvement in these present hostilities.” But he said the United States would try to , “localize and end” the fighting. For two hours today he discussed means of doing that with the National Security Council—his top advisory agency — and the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the civilian heads of the military services. Junks Mission to Israel While this meeting was going on the U.S. Export-Import Bank canceled plans to send a special mission to Israel to survey the possibility of a 75-million-dollar development loan. The United States is considering cessation of all economic aid to the embattled Jewish state. Israel has been getting such aid under a $26,800000 program for the fiscal year ending June 30. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said there will be no White House statement on today’s Security Council-military deliberations. , .Asked whether U S. moves in the U.N. were one way of honoring the 1950 Big Three pledge—which Britain and France have repudiated — Hagerty replied: “That’s one way, yes, of course.” Hagerty said he had no comment on whether the administration is considering any other way. He has said previously, however, that the pledge will be honored. Monday Is Deadline For Tax Payments Only a few days remain for Adams county taxpayers to make the second payment' on their 1956 taxes, according to a reminder today by county treasurer Waldo Neal. Monday, Nov. 5, is the final day for payment. Persons who fail to pay their taxes by that date will be penalized with a six percent delinquency addition to their tax bill. For the benefit of last minute taxpayers, the treasurer’s office will remain open Saturday afternoon until 4 o’clock. The office will close on election day Nov. 6 and will remain closed the rest of the week for the posting of tax payments made during the past few weeks. 12 Pages

Stevenson In Bid For Free Time On TV Asks For Time To Answer Eisenhower On Middle East War PITTSBURGH W — Adlai E. Stevenson asked today for free radio and television time to tell how the Eisenhower foreign policy has taken “the whole world to the brink of aritither war.” Press Secretary Clayton Fritchey said the Democratic presidential candidate was asking radio and TV networks to give him 15 minutes at 7 p. m. (EST) tonight to comment on President Eisenhower’s nationwide broadcast Wednesday night on the IsraeliEgyptian war., Stevenson cancelled his entire schedule for the day to fly back to New York City where he will make the broadcast tonight. He was to have spoken at Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, N. Y. Pledges Party Support Stevensop told 10,000 persons at a rally here Wednesday night he would use the time to speak “somewhat at length about the bankruptcy of foreign policy of the Eisenhower-Dulles administration.” “As leader of the Democratic Party, I pledge on your behalf the support of our party to all measures which promise to bring a quick end to the fighting in the Middle East,” he said. “But, my friends, I cannot and will not promise support or respect rfor a foreign policy which must bear a heavy share of responsibility for the Middle Eastern crisis, and which has bluffed and blundered the United States into a shattering diplomatic disaster.” He said the administration foreign policy has taken the world “to the brink of another war which Mr. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles may not have planned but which he did a lot to cause.” Hears Ike On Radio Stevenson flew here from New : York Wednesday night. He heard > the President’s report on the Is-rael-Egypt fighting by radio, while his plane waited for clearance to leave New York. Fritchey said Stevenson was requesting the networks to give Stevenson “exactly the same time” (Continued on Page Five) Mother And Stepson Confess To Slaying Mother Admits To Being Mastermind HAMMOND, Ind. (W — Police uncovered a spine-chilling murder mystery late Wednseday with the confessions of a mother and her son in the slaying of the boy’s drunken step-father. Anthony Brewbaker, 16, and his mother, Gladys Martin, 35, signed statements obtained by Police Chief Ray Johnson in which they detailed their parts in the fatal shooting of Robert Martin, 32, early Monday in the family car. Brewbaker confessed he shot and killed his stepfather while his mother admitted she was the mastermind of the plot. Mrs. Martin also admitted blaming the murder on a “phantom” hitchhiker which began a threestate manhunt for the killer. Johnson said Brewbaker’s 12year old sister, Marianne, who also was in the car when the shooting occurred, “took no part in it but knew, of the plot beforehand.” Mrs. Martin and the children were expected to be transferred either today or Friday from the city jail here to the Lake County Criminal Court at Crown Point where charges will be filed. In her statement, Mrs. Martin said constant marital strife had marred the last four or five years of her marriage to Martin. She said the decision to kill her husband was made some time ago. Anthony said in his statement that his mother was driving the car when he shot his step-father in the back of the head as he lay in a drunken stupor. The wavy-haired youth said his* mother stopped the auto, helped dump the body from the car to the roadside and then drove off leaving him with his step-father near a turnoff to their trailer home. Brewbaker confessed he then pumped five more bullets into Martin's head. The boy said he and bis mother had planned the murder because Martin was “drunk all the time and spent all the family’s money.” Brewbaker also said his stepfather, a steel company foreman, was brutal and abusive.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, November 1, 1956

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Egypt Leader Scores French, British Action Says Two Nations In Declared War Against Egyptians UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP)An Egyptian diplomat said today British and French planes are operating from Israeli airfields in a "declared war” against Egypt. A few hours before the United Nations General Assembly was to meet in an emergency session (at 4 p.m. CST) to seek an end to the Middle East fighting, a spokesman for Egypt’s U.N. delegation accused Britain and France of bombing a hospital, a religious mosque and “innocent civilians.” Abdul Mawgoud Hassan, Egyptian press spokesman, said "The British and French have in fact Joined, in a cowardly and shameful way, Israel in declaring war against Egypt.” He said the blocking' of the Suez Canal by the British in sinking an . Egyptian vessel in it demolished the Anglo-French contention that the two countries had intervened in the fighting to keep the canal open, . “Side Side” British and French bombers, he said, "are fighting side by side with Israeli forces in the Sinai Desert.” “Would honest world opinion trust further, declarations from London and Paris that their socalled Allied air forces have bombarded only military targets when we have information that civilian casualties of air raids are increasing by the hour? he demanded. “The Heliopolis Hospital, a mosque, Egypt's military academy and innocent civilians were the target of the evil British and French air bombardment.” There were indications Britain and France might boycott the General Assembly meeting. Local Man's Mother Is Taken By Death Mrs. Walter Mowery, 86, of near Napoleon, 0., died Wednesday in a hospital at Wauseon, 0., where she had been a patient since suffering a broken hip in a fall a week ago. Survivors include a son, Charles Mowery of Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 ( p.m. Saturday at the Walker funeral home in Napoleon. Teenagers Canvass Decatur Tonight Seek Contributions To Community Fund i Decatur’s teenagers will exhibit ; their civic spirit tonight when they 1 cover the town to appeal for "small ( change” donations to the 1956 Community Fund. Organized under the chairman- ] ship of David Heimann, a student , at Decatur Catholic high school, , and Fred Schott, of Decatur high school, the drive will feature a ■ door-to-door canvass of the entire , city. < “Light up the town for the Community Fund” is the slogan for , tonight’s project, and the young- | sters will ask" each donor to turn ( on porch lights for about a half i hour. They hope to turn on the 1 porch lights of every home in the : community. 1 The drive is a final effort to i reach the 1956 fund goal of $13,400. 1 Some of the volunteer workers < have not yet completed their re- ' ports but they have been asked to do so in the next few days so that ’ the drive can be officially ended. 1 Lyle Mallonee, general chairman i of the drive, has* issued a request , that all persons in Decatur cooper- ; ate with the teenagers in their es- ’ fort to provide financial aid to i eight projects and organizations 1 through the community fund. (

Halloween Parade Enjoyed Wednesday Large Crowd Lines Streets Os Decatur Large crowds lined the streets of Decatur Wednesday night for the annual CallithumpiAn parade, one of the biggest in the history of the event, which is sponsored by the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. The parade featured 17 bands, several floats, many industrial exhibits, new and old model cars and hundred of masked groups and individuals. Miss Jackie Snyder, 1956 Adams county soybean queen, led the parade. Bluffton high school’s band won the first prize of $35 in band competition. Other prizes for top bands went to Rockford, 0., $25, second; Adams Central sls, third, and Berne-French, $lO. fourth. The drum majorettes of BerneFrench and Bluffton high schools tied for first place in the drum major competition. Pleasant Mills’ drum majorette won third place and fourth prize went to Adams Central’s drum majorette. Judges for bands and majorettes were Norman M. Guard, director of the Poling, 0., band, and Marceau C. Myers of the Hoagland high school faculty. In addition to the band prizes, awards were made to the following individuals: Mrs. Melvin Werling, best comic strip mdn; Jean Swickard, best comic strip boy; Joe Grey, tallest man; Von Call, best fat boy; Mr. and Mrs. Karl Hilty and Letty Abbey, best masked group; Charles J. Miller, most original adult; Earl H. Sprunger, most original boy; Mrs. Harrison Miller, most original girl; Vincent Parker, most comically dressed pet. Mrs. Charles Morningstar, best adult clown; Alan Converse!, best clown; Steven and Sharon Kaye, best witch; Nick Conrad, best ghost; Ke’vin Levy, best decorated toy wagon; Mrs. Aaron Weiland and Mrs. Harold August, best masked couple, and Mrs. Pauline (Continued o« rag« Five) Handley Speaks At Luncheon Meeting GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Speaks An overflow crowd jammed the Knights of Pythias home Wednesday noon for a Republican rally luncheon which featured Lt. Gov. Harold W. Handley, G.O.P. candidate for governor, as the main speaker. Handley, introduced by county Republican chairman Harry (Peck) Essex, accused the opposition of “grasgjng at straws and creating issues to hoodwink the public” in reference to the Stevenson proposal to halt H-bomb tests and to stop the draft. On the state level, he accused his opponent of irresponsible statements and half truths and belittled Tucker's promises concerning taxes, economy and conservation. “I am opposed to new taxes, too” Handley stated, “but I have to be honest. I won’t be hamstrung by promises I can’t keep.” He also criticized Tucker’s proposal concerning federal aid for schools, saying that Indiana is able to take care of its own school system without taking reduced federal dollars. Handley expressed optimism over the coming election, saying that he is convinced that the Republicans will win if they get out the vote. He also commented on the harmony and unity that he had observed throughout the state in the Republican party. He concluded by claiming, “We cannot afford to lose for the sake of our state and our nation as well as the free world.” Robert Smith, local attorney, was master of ceremonies for the luncheon program. Introductions were made by Roy Price, Robert Anderson, Mrs. Eleanor Snyder and Essex. Among those attending were local candidates and local -and area party officials, including fourth district chairman Thomas Gallmeyer of Fort Wayne.

East Germany Students Make Firm Demands Action Similar To Criticism Before' Hungarian Revolt BERLIN (UP)— Rebellious East German students demanded removal of universities from Communist control today with the same type of criticism that preceded the Hungarian nationalist uprising. A delegation from East, Berlin’s Humboldt University sent a telegram to the University of Budapest expressing support for Hungarian rebels. In a firm anti-Communist, antiSoviet stand the students attached East Germany's Communist youth organization and demanded abolition of the compulsory study of Russian language and Marxism and free elutions to student councils. They- also demanded decentralization of the universities and an end of military training. The demands were unprecedented in East Germany. Students encouraged by the Hungarian revolt demanded the right • to withdraw from the "Free Geri man Youth” organization and set up their own student organizations. The demands were disclosed by the Communists themselves. In an effort to prevent open’demonstrations, the Communists threatened the students with punishment but made some concessions and promises. ’ The Communist reaction indicated the seriousness with which the situation was viewed by the East German government. w World Community Services Friday Evening Service At Presbyterian Church World Community Day services, sponsored by the council of church women, will be held at 7:30 o’clock Friday evening at the First Presbyterian church. This world wide event is sponsored by the united council of churches and the council of church women. The offering taken at the service will be used for projects and extension of the programs of study and action of united church women. "Parcels for peace” is another feature of World Community Day. Clothing for both children and adults in needy parts of the world is desperately needed, also yardage of denim and sheeting, and blankets. These materials are to be taken to the Presbyterian church Friday. The program dtor the Friday evening service follows: Organ prelude by Mrs. O. H. Haubold; call to meditation, Mrs. W. L. Harper; devotions, Miss Elizabeth Cramer; “Human rights and the United Nations," Miss Frances Dugan, Mrs. Jay E. Thacker, the Rev. Stuart Brightwell; offering and dedication, Mrs. Robert Folk; Doxology, congregation; business meeting for election and installation of officers, conducted by Mrs. George Buckley; benediction, the Rev. Ray J. Walther; postlude, Mrs. 0. H. Haubold. <• Eastern Greyhound Bus Lines Struck CLEVELAND ((IP))—A midnight walkopt tied up bus service of Eastern Greyhound lines in 18 states today. Negotiations were continued in a closed session through the early morning hours here today in an attempt to reach agreement. Eastern Greyhound serves an area, from the Mississippi River east to the Atlantic Coast and as far south as Norfolk, Va., and St. Louis, Mo. A total of 4,000 workers are idled.

Nobel Physics Prize To Three Americans Joint Awards Made To Three Americans STOCKHOLM (UP) — Three Americans were awarded jointly the Nobel physics prize today for their invention and development of the point contact transistor which is making revolutionary changes in the radio and telephone industries. ‘ The physicists, who will split $38,633 in prize money equally, are Dr. Walter Brattain of Murray ! Hill, N.J.; Prof. John Bardeen of ■ Champaign, Ill.; and Dr. William ‘ Shockley of Mountain View, Calif. It took two hours for the Royal 1 Swedish Academy of Sciences to reach a decision on the prize award for physics, making it the most hotly debated issue in the august institution’s history. ' Originally, the academy’s Nobel 1 committee recommended that the 1 academy withhold the prize this ; year. A proposal to reward the three American scientists was ad- ‘ vocated by Prof. Hakan Sterky, 1 general director of the state-owned telephone and telegraph company, and he managed to rally enough 1 support to overrule the Nobel committee’s proposal by what was reported as a very slim majority. The academy also announced ? the joint award of the 1956 Nobel 1 Prize for chemistry to Prof. Cyril * Norman Hinshelwood, 59 of Ox 1 Nikolaevich Senenov, 60,. of Mos- • ford University and Prof. Nikolai ' cow University, for their 1 researches into the mechanism of ‘ chemical reactions. They will split * the $38,000 prize. Brattain and Shockley conducted their researches on the transistor while working together at the Bell • Telephone Laboratories where i Brattain, 54, still is a member of i the technical staff. Shockley, 46 now is director of the Shockley semi-conductor laboratory, a division of the Beckman Instruments Co. Brattain was bom in China of American parents and Shockley was born in London and came to the United States as a child. Bardeen, 48, is a professor of physics and engineering at the University of Illinois. He has long been famous for extensive research on germanium and other semiconductors and was associated with Brattain and Shockley at the Bell Laboratories for six years. American Airplane Lands At South Pole Historic Landing Made By American WARREN, R.I. (UP) — An American landed by plane at the South Pole early today, the first person in the world to do so, according to a radio report received here. Word of the historic landing by Rear Admiral George Dufek was received here by a ham radio operator, Newton Kraus. He received the shortwave radio message shortly before dawn from the U.S. base at McMurdo Sound in Antarctica. Dufek touched down at the pole at 11 p.m. CST and spent 45 minutes at the exact bottom of the world. The admiral, commander of Task Force 43, flew the 500 miles from McMurdo to the pole in a Navy R4D ski-equipped plane. The radio message did not say how many others were aboard. Only two exploring parties previously have reached the South Pole. Both were afoot. The first was led by Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, who reached the Pole Dec. 14, 1911. The second was led by Capt. Robert F. Scott of England. Scott died in trying to return to his coastal base. Dufek flew back to McMurdo Sound after his record breaking flight. E INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, little change in temperatures tonight and Friday. Fog likely again tonight. Rain in northwest portion by Friday night. Low to- - night mostly in the 40s. High Friday 65-75. Sunset 5:44 p. m., sunrise Friday 7:15 a. m.

TopslnNews In Second Day Os Hostilities [ Egypt Breaks Off r Relations To Both Britain And France . BULLETIN , CAIRO (W — The Egyptian . government today took over f British and French oil indus- , tries in Egypt. | BULLETIN > LONDON (IF) — Prime Mln- . ister Sir Anthony Eden said » today that Britain has made • no declaration of war on Egypt. 1 > LONDON (UP) Egypt ans nounced today that a ship sunk by i British and French bombers had - blocked the Suez Canal. , “Britain and France have 1 blocked Suez Canal navigation at , a time when they have aroused the it whole world by claiming they are 1 protecting canal navigation,” an s Egyptian communique said. It was the major development in d the second day of hostilities which fl found British and French bombers il streaming out of their Cyprus :- bases against Egyptian targets on i- an around-the-clock basis, (i In the Sinai desert, Israel r claimed to have cut off the 20-mile f Gaza Strip from the rest of Egypt t and to have bottled up some 20,000 of the cream of Egypt’s army. 3 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel r Nasser said over Cairo Radio that 1 Egypt “will fight a total war.” e Egypt Breaks Relations f “We will fight in the villages 5 and from ditch to ditch,” Nasser F said. >• It was Nasser’s defiant reply to s French and British announcements i that they will continue their atr tacks until the fighting between > Egypt and Israel ends. There W’as no sign of any such end. f From Damascus came word that » Syrian forces had clashed with ! Israeli and had penetrated into i Israel before withdrawing. The - clash was said to have been with I Israeli border patrols. s Diplomatic action kept pace with the fighting. Egypt broke off relations with France and Britain. Jordan broke off relations with France. Syria recalled its ambassadors from London and Paris for “consultation.” Iraq was preparing for consultations with both Egypt and Britain, with each of whom it has treaties. Crisis in Britain i In London, Prime Minister Atn- > thony Eden faced the greatest test ; of his career, under angry and de- . termined attack by the Laborites. [ He was expected easily to survive a vote of confidence, but admittedly the fate of both himself and his ; government hung bn the outcome , of the Mideastern conflict. At the United Nations in New i York, the General Assembly was ; to meet at 5 p.m. to consider the Mideast tinderbox. It was likely both France and Britain would boycott the meeting. Egypt threatened to quit the U.N. because of its failure to prevent he Anglo-French atack. The Egyptian communique said that British and French planes had J attacked Egyptian land forces i while they were crossing the Suez Canal at several points, especially in the Ferdan area. It added that the Western Allied i planes continued raiding Cairo, ; Alexandria and the Suez Canal (Continued on Page Six) ELECTION RETURNS For election returns Tues- , day night, Nov. 6, call telephone number 3-2171. The 1 tape recorder will be up to the minute with returns and will be changed each time a new result is received. The election news service will be provided through the courtesy of th Telephone Company and the Decatur Daily Democrat. Mark down the number, 3-2171.

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