Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 261, Decatur, Adams County, 5 November 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 261

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Adams County Voters Ready For Election

Dr. Harry Hebble. county Democratic chairman, and Harry (Peck) Essex, county Republican chairman, today issued reminders that assistance for voters would be available at their headquarters Tuesday. Both parties will provide transportation to and from the polls and will also provide baby sitters for the benefit of mothers who wish to vote. Any voter who desires the sercice may call headquarters of either party. The Democratic headquarters telephone number is 3-2634 and Republican headquarters number is 3-2580. Workers and candidates in both parties are finishing their preelection campaigns with special emphasis on getting out the vote. The polls will open at 7 a. m. daylight savings time Tuesday and remain open to the voters until 7 p. m. daylight savings time. Four ballots will be cast-national, state, county and time referendum. After the polls close and precinct workers take time out for meals, the night-long job of counting ballots and totalling results will begin. Unofficial totals will be available at the Decatur Daily Democrat. Up-to-the minute returns will be announced on the tape recorder number, 3-2171.-The official vote totalling will be done as in past years in the court room of the Adams county court house under the direction of the county election board. The board includes county clerk Richard Lewton, Republican member Cal. E. Peterson and Democratic member David A. Macklin. Assisting them will be the court baliff Sam Bentz, and four clerks appointed by the two political party chairmen of Ad„ms county. The Republican clerks this year are Mrs Leota Connell of Decatur and Mrs. Galen Sprunger of Berne. One Democratic clerk will be Mrs. Austin Merriman and the second has not yet been nahied. Precinct inspectors, following completion of the counting of ballots at each poll, will turn in their reports and ballots to the canvassing board for the official tabulation. ... Although the official count will {Continued on Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER == Mostly -cloudy north, partly cloudy south through Tuesday with fog likely again tonight. Not much change in temperatures. Low tonight 48-54. High Tuesday 60s north to low 70s south. Sunset 5:39 p. m., sunrise Tuesday a. m.

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Russia Clamps Iron Rule On Hungary Today Vienna Newspapers Report Fighting In City Os Budapest VIENNA (UP) — Soviet troops clamped an iron rule on Hungary today. But reports reaching here said Russian forces still were trying to wipe out pockets of resistance in Budapest. Vienna newspapers said fighting still was going on in the embattled city. A refugee reaching here said the entire nation was aflame with a “mass wave of patriotism.” The Soviets themselves indicated some resistance continued when the Red Army commanders broadcast an appeal to Hungarian troops to desert to the Russians. The Soviets imposed a curfew on Budapest and demanded that rebels lay down their arms by 6 p.m. (11 a.m. CST) or face a Soviet court martial. A Hungarian refugee told Western officials in Vienna the army instead had given guns and ammunition to rebel men, women and children. Last-Ditch Battle He said a last ditch battle raged in Budapest late Sunday in the Buda district on the right bank of the Danube River. The refugee was interviewed by Western officials when he reached safety in Austria this morning. His name was withheld to protect relatives still in Budapest. He said houses were being barricaded and converted into individual fortresses and the Hungarian army was passing out rifles, tommyguns, mortars and hand grenades. Officials To Study Juvenile Delinquency BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (UP) — Indiana University today announced that law officials from 35 Hoosier communities will study the problem of juvenile delinquency at a conference here Dec. 16-14. . Persons attending die conference will visit the Indianapolis Juvenile Aid Division and the Boy’s School at Plainfield.

U.N. Approves International Police Force • * General Assembly Approves Projected Middle East Force By BRUCE W. MUNN United Press Staff Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) —The United Nations rushed today organization of an international police force for the Middle East. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold called in representatives of the smaller countries to discuss plans for the international force to which Canada, New Zealand. Colombia and Norway already had pledged troops. < The General Assembly, by a 57-0 vote with 19 abstentions, early today approved the projected forte in a resolution proposed by Canadian External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearsons. Under plans drawn up by Hammarskjold, troops from the Big Five powers would be excluded from the police force whose purpose is to "secure and supervise the cessation of hostilities" in Egypt. Sunday night, Pearson also suggested to the assembly that a similar police force might be usefully employed in Hungary. Approve U.S. Resolution He told the assembly Britain and France were ready to hand over a policing role to the U.N. in the Suez Canal Zone. “Will the Soviet Union give us the same promise with respect to the military operations now going on in Hungary?” Pearson asked. The assembly’s emergency session. by a 50-8 vote with 15 abstentions, approved a United States resolution calling on Russia to end its attack against Hungary and withdraw its forces from the country. The measure asked Hammarskjold to appoint an investigating commission for a fact-finding mission to the country and appealed to the Soviet Union and its new puppet Hungarian government to admit auch a U.N. delegation. Ask Hungary’s Needs It also asked Hammarskjold to ascertain Hungary's needs for food, medicines and similar supplies and called on all U.N. members to make them available. Russia served notice in advance that it would "not sanction any intervention by the U.N. in Hungary.” Completing action on the Middle East police force and Hungarian items, the assembly ended its hectic weekend and adjourned with no plans for any meeting before tonight, at the earliest. _ . '■ Britain, France and Israel refused a last midnight deadline to accept a cease-fire. The call was contained in a resolution sponsored by a number of the AfroAsian bloc of nations and approved by the assembly early Sunday morning. Egypt accepted the cease-fire call on condition the others did likewise.

Luncheon Meeting Os Retailers Tuesday The monthly luncheon meeting of the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce will be held at 12 noon Tuesday at the Youth and Community Center. All retailers are urged to be present. County Home Report Approved By Board Commissioners In Monthly Session The county commissioners met today in the county court house for their regular meeting. During the morning session the county home report was filed and approved. The report, made by superintendent George Fosnaugh, showed an income of $3,316.32 during the month of October, with 20 men and eight women residing there during the month. County treasurer Waldo Neal’s bond in the sum of $450,000 for the sale of county hospital bonds was filed and approved. Sureties for the bond are Maryland Casualty company, the National Fire Insurance company and the Ohio Casualty Insurance company. Also filed with the commissioners was the bond on Arleda Sorgen, deputy clefk, in the sum of $2,500. Surety for the bond is the American States Insurance company. A letter from the assistant state veterinarian, R. M. Johnson D.V. M., was filed with the commissioners. The letter is a report that Adams county is described as a modified certified brucellosisfree area for a period of three years.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 5, 1956

Great Britain, France Invade Egyptian Soil With Paratroopers

Candidates In Final Election Pleas Tonight About 60 Million Americans To Cast Ballots Tuesday WASHINGTON (UP) — Democrats fired new blasts at Eisenhower foreign policy today in eleventh-hour campaign speeches citing the bloody events in Hungary and the Middle East. Indications were that they will need all the last - minute vote switches they can swing, and probably more. They blamed administration “fumbling” and "negligence” for the strife overseas. President Eisenhower and his Democratic opponent, Adlai E. Stevenson, along with their running mates, will wind up the 1956 campaign officially with television appearances tonight. The President and Vice President Richard M. Nixon held a political huddle at the White House while Stevenson and Estes Kefauver, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, were still out on the stump. Charges Administration Fumbled In a special election day forecast the Weather Bureau said most of the nation will enjoy fair weather for Tuesday’s balloting. But scattered rains were forecast for the central part of the country from the upper Mississippi Valley to the western Gulf states an® along parts of the north Pacific coast. Stevenson asserted that administration "fumbling” delayed the “efforts of other nations to help the people of Hungary in the United Nations.” He also charged that “presidential negligence on question of peace and war may plunge the whole world into the horror of hydrogen war." Kefauver said Sunday night that the “totally incompetent administration foreign policy contributed (Continued on Page Six) ( Thomas Fisher Dies Early This Morning Retired Painter Is Taken By Death Thomas M. Fisher, 87, retired painter and resident of Decatur most of his life, died at 2:30 o’clock this morning at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne following a week’s illness of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was born in Adams county Jan. 14, 1869, a son of Joseph and Elizabeth Yager-Fisher. His wife, the former Lucy Moyer, died in 1948. Mr. Fisher was a member of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving are two sons, Carl Fisher of Rome City and Harry Fisher of Banton, la.; six grandchildren; eight great-grandchil-dren; and two brothers, Frank Fisher of Decatur and Louis Fisher of Van Wert, O. Two brothers and five sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. Lawrence T. Norris officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. Funeral Held Today For McConnell Twins Graveside services were held in Greenlawn memorial park. Fort Wayne, this afternoon for the infant son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. McConnell, of Fort Wayne. The twins died at birth Sunday afternoon at the Lutheran hospital. Surviving in addition to the parents are the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. McConnell of Decatur and Mr. and Mrs. Jr Victor Brock, of Waynedale.

Secretary Dulles Undergoes Surgery Cancer Is Removed In Large Intestine WASHINGTON (UP)— Doctors who operated on Secretary or State John Foster Dulles Saturday removed a cancer from the large intestine. They found no evidence that the malignancy had spread to any other organ. The State Department disclosed this in a medical bulletin issued Sunday at Walter Reed Army Medical Center where Dulles underwent surgery. The bulletin said'the secretary's condition as of 3 p.m. EST Sunday was “good.” A State Department spokesman Said he still was standing by a previous prediction that Dulles will be back at his ■ desk in about six weeks. President Eisenhower paid a 15minute call on Dulles Sunday afternoon and immediately made clear that he does not expect the ’ operation to affect Dulles’ place in the cabinet. Dulles is 68. The President issued a special statement praising Dulles’ conduct of foreign policy and announcing that Undersecretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., would run the State Department until Dulles • “can resume his full duties.” During his visit to Dulles, Mr. 1 Eisenhower told Maj. Gen; LeonD. Heaton, Walter Retfd commanding general who operated on Dulles, to “take good care of my boy. I need him.” The surgeon, who also per(Contieued on t'age Five) ’ Says Red Boss In Hungary Murdered BERLIN (UP) — The Communist East German radio said today Emoe Geroe, the tough Stalinist Communist party boss in Hungary before the rebellion, has been murdered. j “Geroe was murdered in a barbaric way by counter-revolution-aries,” the broadcast said. Funeral Held Today For Rumschlag Baby Services were held this morning at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very .Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating, for Gary Eugene Rumschlag, infant son of Richard and Bonnie Suman Rumschlag, 516 Niblick street. Burial, conducted by the Gillig & Doan funeral home, was in the Catholic cemetery. The infant was born Friday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital, where death occurred at 12:30 a.m. Sunday. I Surviving in addition to the parI ents are a brother, Richard, Jr.; two sisters, Deborath and Susan, all at home, and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Rumschlag and Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Suman, all of Adams county. Gas Company Strike Threatened Tuesday Last Minute Effort To Prevent Strike HAMMOND, Ind. (UP)—Officials of the United Mine Workers union and the Northern Indiana Public Service Co. planned to meet in Chicago today with federal mediators in a last minute attempt to avoid a maintenance and service workers strike at midnight Tuesday. , - A walkout by the 2,000 workers, members of the union's District 50, could tie up gas and electric service throughout northern Indiana. The company went ahead with plans to continue servipe without the union workers if no settlement is reached when their contract runs out at the end of election day. The workers involved constitute 90 per cent, of the utility’s service and maintenance force. • A company spokesman said the utility ottered further fringe benefits in a meeting last Friday night. Officials on both sides would not detail the major issues in the contract dispute. . ..

27 Americans Reach Safely From Budapest Arrive In Vienna After Two Nights In Red Captivity VIENNA (UP) — A convoy of 27 Americans, including 11 children, reached safety here today after two nights in Russian captivity on their flight from Budapest. The refugees, mostly wives and children of U.S. legation officials in the Hungarian capital, told of being threatened by Red Army tommy-guns and being forced to . turn back from the border twice . despite their diplomatic status. All arrived here safely. The con- . voy of six cars crossed the Austro- . Hungarian border at noon (5 a.m. CST) and brought the party imI mediately to a Vienna hotel. The group was headed by i Robert A. Clark of Portland, Ore., ’ and Winterhaven, Fla., an official , of the Budapest legation. There ■ were 21 legation personnel and dependents and 6 other Americans in the party, including Edgar Clark, ’ Time magazine correspondent in . Belgrade, Mrs. Katherine Clark, t International News Service correspondent, and Frank Donghi of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Clark said the convoy left Budapesta t 12:45 p.m. Friday but only got as far as a roadblock between Magyarovar and Hegyeshalom. There they were turned back to Budapest by Soviet tanks. “In Budapest, the legation protested to Soviet Ambassador J.A. Andropov who promised to settle the matter,” Clark related. Clark saidt he Soviet embassy assured American officials Saturday morning that there would be "no trouble,” so the convoy started out again, joined by cars carrying Austrian, French, British and German nationals. He said they “made fine progress’’ until the HegyeShalom border control point where Soviet tanks blocked the highway within 200 yards of the Austrian border. "We had a letter of safe con(Contlnued oh r-age Five) Arthur Doctor Dies Suddenly Sunday Heart Attack Fatal To Allen County Man Arthur H. Doctor, 62, who resided six miles southeast of Fort Wayne on Wayne Trace, died suddenly of a heart attack at 4:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon. He had attended a Lutheran circuit meeting at St. John's Lutheran church near Hoagland Sunday afternoon and was stricken shortly after returning home. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Lutheran hospital. He was born in Marion township, Allen county, Feb. 16, 1894, a son of Henry J. and Margaret Petzold-Doctor, and had resided on the same farm his entire life. He was married to Ella Kleine May 25. 1924. Mr. Doctor, a farmer, was a member of the Emmanuel Lutheran church at Soest and was an elder of the church. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Eugene L. of Adams Center road, and Marlin, at home; two daughters, Mrs. Samuel Gross of the Winchester road, Allen county, and Mrs. Daniel Spieth of Marion Center road, Allen county; 11 grandchildren; one brother, Elmer Doctor of Allen county, and three sisters, Mrs. Albert Rohrbach, Mrs. Herbert Leppert and Mrs. Oswald Hoffman, all of Allen county. Funeral services will be eonducted at 1:15 p. m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. *m. at Emmanuel Lutheran church at Soest, the Rev, Otto L. Mueller officiating. 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.

Weathermen Keep Eye On Hurricane West Cleaning Up Following Blizzard By UNITED PRESS Weathermen kept a watchful eye on Hurricane Greta today while western states finished a clean-up operation from a weekend blizzard described as “one of the worst” in recent years. Meanwhile, fog spread over the Great Lakes, the Ohio Valley and parts of the Mississippi Valley for the fourth successive morning, hindering, both air and surface travel. At Chicago, air flights were operating m and out of Midway and O’Hare International airports but visibility was limited. The fog shroud also halted shipping at 1 many points on the Great Lakes, including the heavily used locks at Sault Saint Marie, where the Coast Guard reported between 15 and 20 ships tied up. The hurricane, seventh of the season and bearing winds up to 100 miles per hour, was some 340 miles northeast of Puerto Rico and : headed in an easterly direction. 1 Although it was not expected to threaten seriously any land areas, ’ storm warnings were up from 1 Puerto Rico and the northern Lee- ' ward Islands. 1 Cold air and occasional light snow gave the weather a winter ' like aspect from the > Rockies to the Mississippi River. Temperatures in the 20s were reported as far south as Colorado and New Mexico. Both Laramie and Douglas, Wyo., reported early Inorning temperatures of 5 degrees above zero. The blizzard which struck the Rockies and western Plains during the weekend blocked roads with huge drifts. Workmen struggling to clear roads in Nebraska reported some drifts as high as 14 feet. Near Harrison, Neb., a search party found two women who had spent two days in their driftstalled auto. The snow-buried car was found because the women—who survived the ordeal apparently without panic-had marked its location by tying a corsage to a broomstick. Highway patrols in Wyoming reported late Sunday that roads north of Cheyenne were stil blocked. The blinding snowfall also struck Colorado, the Dakotas and parts of Kansas and New Mexico. Jordanians Fleeing Homes On Frontier Israel Indicates Cease Fire Stand JERUSALEM, Israel (UP) — Hundreds of Jordanians in villages along Israel’s tinder-box frontier are fleeing their homes in a mass exodus,* diplomats arriving here said today. Israel indicated meanwhile that it would accept the'United Nations appeal for a cease fire only if Egypt ended its blockade against Israeli shipping in the Suez Canal. Israel also refused to accept a U.N. police force in the Sinai Peninsula. V Diplomats into the Israeli-held new city of Jerusalem said most of the villagers are heading eastward with only a few belongings, reminiscent of the 1948 evacuation scenes. The flight coincided with the reported movement into Jordan of troops from Syria and Iraq. The Israeli Cabinet held long secret sessions today, indicating a belief that an attack from the Jordan border might come at any time. (In Beirut, Lebanon, some informed sources predicted that Syria and Jordan will not go to war with Israel. The sources said the two Arab countries do not wish to jeopardize the position of the Arab world in the face of world public opihion. In addition, they feel Israel b in a better position to defend itself, now that British and French troops are in the Suez Canal Zone.)

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Report Cease Fire Ordered Al Port Said > Blitz Assault From i Skies On Port Said Initial Objective : 3rd General Ld Middle East UP73 ! By DANIEL F. GILMORE United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON (UP) — Britain and France invaded Egypt with para- , troops today and by nightfall the ; British said the commander of . Port Said was discussing surren- ‘ der terms. The blitz assault from the skies flamed briefly into tough fighting ' at Port Said, sole object of the ; initial Anglo-French attack, and . suddenly ended, the British said, with a cease fire ordered. Sir Anthony Eden made the dramatic announcement in Commons of what could mean a quick victory at Port Said. “I have had a flash signal from ' the commander in chief in the eastern Mediterranean,” Eden ' said. “It says: ’Governor and military commander Port Said now . discussing surrender terms with J (British commander) Brigadier , Butler. Cease fire ordered.” *■ •• IRbloml ’**■ " There was no immediate word whether a cease fire might apply to all of Egypt. A great amphibious armada was poised in the sea north of the canal, prepared to launch a mass attack at any time. Egypt had fought back bitterly at Port Said at-the outset. Tanks, mortars and machineguns were used against the paratroops who dropped at dawn on Port Said. Cairo at first claimed one AngloFrench force had been annihilated at an airfield. A second “large wave of French paratroops struck in midafternoon. A short time later came the announcement by the British prime minister. Socialbt opposition leader Hugh Gaitskeli pressed the prime minister as to whether it was a local or general cease' fire and whether military operations were underway elsewhere. “I read out the signal as I received it,” Eden said. ,“dearly, I cannot know how wide or narrow is the area covered by the cease fire.” Reported Heavy Fighting Gen. Sir Charles Keightley, the Anglo-French commander on Cyprus, previously had acknowledged “tough and heavy fighting.” But he said one British force was firmly established at an airfield and that French forces held two bridges across the canal. A great convoy of troopships and men of war, the largest naval armada in action in the Mediterranean since the Sicily landings of World War 11, bad sailed from Cyprus toward Egypt, 250 miles away. Baby Sitter Service Here Election Day Girls from the junior auxiliary of the American Legion are offering their services Tuesday, as free baby sitters while mothers go to the polls to vote. The girls will be available from 4 until 7 p.m., when the polls close. For additional information, mothers are asked to call Mbs Cheryl Ashbaucher at 3-2124. Arrangements will be made to have a girl come to the voter’s home, and then be returned as soon as the mother returns. ELECTION RETURNS For election returns Tuesday night, Nov. 6, call telephone number 3-2171. The 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 the Citizens Telephone Company and the Decatur Daily Democrat. Mark down the number, 3-2171.