Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 266, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 266

MEET WITH IKE ON MIDDLE EAST CRISIS J KI B H m CALLED TO THE White House for a conference on the MidcUe East crisis, bi-partisan Congressional leaders leave after the meeting. In the group chatting outside the mansion are (from left) House Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Vinson <D> Ga.; Rep. Carl Albert (D) Okla.; Rep. Carl Halleck |R) Ill.; House Speaker Sam Rayburn (D) Tex., and House majority leader John W. McCormack <D) Mass. —'—' “ '.. .-. *

U.N.'s Police ” . Force Heading Toward Canal fc • . First Contingent Os Troops Arrives In Mid-East Today LONDON (UP)— The advance guard of the United Nations police force headed today toward the Suez Canal zone although Egypt still has not said definitely she will accept foreign troops on her soil. An official of the NATO headquarters in Naples said the first contingent — 40 troops each from Norway and Denmark—would arrive during the day. More are on the way from other countries which have volunteered men. The units will stay in the U.S. Navy barracks in Naples and leave for Egypt possibly today or Sunday. Big Three May Meet Reports circulated here, meanwhile, that a Big Three Western meeting in Washington may be imminent. Government circles expressed hope that President Eisenhower would agree to a meeting with Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain and French Premier Guy Mollet to try to heal the breach in the Western alliance caused by the Anglo-French -operation against Egypt. Eden Friday night announced he was willing “to go anywhere and meet anybody to help in a situation of such danger in Europe and the Middle East. He was referring to the Siss plan for a five-power summit meeting of the' Western Big Three, Russia and India. But he also is believed to want a meeting with Mr. Eisenhower. Mollet already has announced that he planned to fly to Washington. Hopes Still High Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty’s statement that that there are no plans at this moment for a Big Three meeting put only a slight damper on the hopes there. There was a definite sense of urgency here. There have been reports of mass movement of Soviet planes to the Arab nations in the Middle East. There was concern in British military circles that the ceasefire in the Suez had put An-glo-French forces in a tenuous position. Egypt still has not given a defi- ’ nite reply to the U.N. request for stationing the International police force on its soil. It said it was waiting “requested details” from U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold before giving its final answer On Temporary Basis Brig. Abdel Kedharhatom, director of the Egyptian government information office, said early today that the force will be stationed along the truce line set up under the 1949-armistice agreements on a “temporary• basis.” He said they would be withdrawn as soon as the emergency ends. Britain and France already have announced they ’ will pull their forces out when an effective U.N. police force moved in. Israel has promised to pull its troops out of the Sinai Peninsulp in conformity with the U.N. resolutions on the Middle East. There were indications that Britain regarded the military situation in the canal zone “touchy.” AngloFrench forces admittedly were in a militarily-precarious position and there were fears, that the Sovietbuilt Egyptian air force may be massing for attack-if the ceasefire fails. NOON EDITION

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West Reds Denounce Russian Aggression West Europe Reds Deserting Parties LONDON (UP)— Disgust with Russian violence in Hungary is causing wholesale desertion from Communist parties west of the Iron Curtain. A United Press survey showed that Soviet military intervention in the Hungarian, revolt has confronted Western Communists with one of their worst internal crises since Stalin sided with Hitler in the short-lived Molotov-Ribbentrop pact of 1939. Here are some of the develop--1 ments: t Paris— Existentialist Jean Paul ; Sartre joined other well-known Communist intellectuals in denouncing the Soviet aggression. [ Pierre Le Brun, a leader of the ■ Communist-led General Confederation of Labor, publicly blasted Russia. Rome— Leftwing Socialist Piet- ' ro Nenni, now writing off a long alliance with Italian Communists, demanded Russian withdrawal from Hungary. The provincial organization in Mantua issued a resolution which deplored the Red Hungarian government’s “need” for calling in Soviet troops. London— The Communist Party of Northern Ireland called on Russia to withdraw its troops from l - “all countries outside the USSR.” The Daily Worker in London, while still supporting Russian intervention, gave front page publicity to leftwing protests, and lost its cartoonist who walked out in protest against Russia’s action. At Oxford, the usually noisy Communist Club voted to end its existence. ' Vienna— Some 4,800 party members in one district alone reportedly quit the ranks. The only Communist city councillor in Graz said he would take no further part in city business. A meeting of the Austrian Central Committee broke up in disagreement over how to answer the Hungarian actioii. Copenhagen— The Danish Party was hard hit with internal dissension. One of the three news editors of the party newspaper quit and . the paper’s oivn correspondent in Hungary denied that the Hungarian revolt was a “Fascist plot” as the organ claimed. Two important labor leaders walked out of the party. Local Man's Brother Dies In Milwaukee Clarence Cochran, 69, brother of Hubert Cochran of Decatur, died Thursday evening at 6 o’clock at the home of a daughter in Milwaukee. Mr. Cochran, who had been in failing health for the last several years, had been seriously ill for the past four months. Until .that time he had been making his home in Huntington, where he was a retired city fireman. His body will be returned Sunday to the Bailey funeral home in Huntington, where friends may call after 4 o’clock that afternoon. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock, and burial will be in the Tocsip cemetery. ~ • William Boerger Shows 10-Pound Sweet Potato William Boerger, of Decatur route 3, brought a 10-pound sweet potato to town to exhibit Friday. He reported it was.the only potato . in the hill.

U. N. Assembly Approves Aid For Hungary Adopts Resolution From United States Despite Opposition UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) —The United Nations, its international police force en route to Egypt and humanitarian aid to embattled Hungary organized, prepared today to wind up the unprecedented dual emergency sessions of the General Assembly. The 76-nation world parliament scheduled a session for this morning to transfer to the agenda of the regular 1956 assembly session —opening Monday —r the war-or-peace questions of the Middle East and Hungary. - Friday night, despite vigorous Arab-Asian efforts led by India’s V. K. Krishna Menon, to delete phrases squarely blaming Russia for the situation in Hungary, the assembly approved a United States resolution calling for a U.N. food and medicine program for the country and for emergency assistance to refugees fleeing the slaughtering Soviet army. U.S. Pitches In The United States, immediately after the vote, announced a $1 million grant for refugee assistance. Many other countries pledged aid and opened their frontiers to give asylum to the refugees. The vote was 53-9 with 13 abstentions. The Soviet bloc opposed the measure and Yugoslavia joined a dozen Arab and Asian countries in abstaining. Before it approved that resolution, which called on Russia not to interfere, but to assist in the humanitarian program, the assembly voted its third call to the Soviet Union to get its troops out of Hungary immediately. The U.S. Air Force provided planes for an air lift for their home bases to a staging area at Naples, Italy, for the advnee contingents of the interntional police force to patrol the Middle East fighoting area as troops of Israel, Britain and France withdraw from Egypt. Units Go To Naples The advance units are from Denmark and Norway. They will be taken by U. S. planes to Capodichino Military Air Base near Naples. In line with Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold’s plan that the Big Five powers will have no part in pie Middle East police force, the second stage of the airlift to Egypt will be in Swiss airline planes. It was not known where the policing troops will land in Egypt, or when. Exact details of the force’s size —expected to be about 6,000 men —and composition, awaited consultation with Mai.-Gen. E. L. M. Burns of Canada, who headed the U.N. Palestine truce supervision orfanization and was named to command the police unit. Burns was expected to,. fly here during the weekend. Anthony Wayne Group Guests Os Lions Club Members or me Anthony Wayne parkway commission will be guests of the Decatur Lions club at the service organization’s dinner meeting Monday evening at the Youth and Community Center. G. Remy Bierly, of Decatur, chairman of the Commission, will introduce the other members, Robert C. Harris, Clyde Dreisbach and Roy Welty, all of Fort Wayne, state senator Lucius Somers, of Hoagland, and Robert Heller, of Decatur. Harris, Welty and Heller will speak on the commission activities.

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Hungary Communists Refuse Medical Help To Bleeding Budapest

Seek Clues To Fiery Crash Os Navy Seamasler Multi-Jet Bomber Crashes, Four Men On Plane Bail Out WILMINGTON, Del. (UP) — A shroud of military secrecy hung over the wreckage of the Navy’s $5.6 million Martin Seamaster today as investigators sought clues to the cause of the fiery crash of the multi-iet bomber. The huge four-engined craft crashed into a farmer’s potato field near St. Georges, 10 miles south of here Friday afternoon. The four man crew bailed out. Air Police from New Castle Air Force Base blocked off the accident scene, which covered a quar-ter-mile. The wreckage was reported “unrecognizable” and in pieces no larger than three to five feet square. CAA and Navy inspectors and engineers from the Glenn L. Martin Co., Baltimore, builders of the plane, planned to recover all the pieces of the jet for study. The crew parachuted to safety and were earned by a strong wind into marshlands bordering the Delaware River. A chase plane, observing the routine test flight of the Seamaster, directed volunteer firemen to the scene. A flight test engineer, William Compton, Lutherville, Md., suffered undetermined injuries and was evacuated by helicopter to Baltimore. The three other crew members, pilot, R.S. Turner, Baltimore; copilot, W. E. Cunningham, Towson, Md., and flight test engineer, Thomas Kenney, Towson, escaped injury. An eyewitness said she saw a "ball of fire” in the sky just before the craft plunged to earth. A state policeman said the Seamaster exploded in midair shortly aft-er-the crew parachuted. The plane was the Navy’s second and only remaining multi-jet, water based bomber. Favors Expanding Atomic Stockpile Sdys Nuclear War Must Be Limited i United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) — Atomic Commissioner Thomas E. Murray said today the United States must face up now to the possible necessity of waging “limited” nuclear war. Such a war must be limited because "a total nuclear war, fought to ..a total victory, could mean only total woe.” Murray said “principles of justice” demand return “to the civilized tradition of limited warfare.” Otherwise, in this day of the H-bomb, “everybody can be killed in war—easily,. quickly, cheaply." Murray addressed the Catholic Association for International Peace which presented him with its 1956 peace award. He said the nation’s stockpile of tactical atomic weapons must be expanded. America’s goal “must be the maintenance of the capacity to deter all unjust aggression even of a limited kind,” Murray said. But “this policy of deterrence may fail,” and aggression “may occur.” Peaceful “methods of rectifying the injustice thus committed may likewise fail.” Without directly mentioning the Hungarian or Middle Eastern strife Murray said should all peaceful efforts fail “we shall then be forced into war. This contingency must be faced now.” INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and cold tonight. Sunday partly cloudy and warmer. Low tonight 28- > 34. High Sunday 54-58. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and a little colder.

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Farm Bureau Favors Higher State Taxes Annual Convention Is Closed Friday INDIANAPOLIS (UP) - Higher state taxes and tighter standards on farm goods led the list of resolutions approved Friday by delegates winding up the Indiana Farm Bureau's 38th annual, convention. from all 92 of the state’s counties voted in favor of about 40 resolutions directed at the 1957 Legislature. They also reelected George Doup, Columbus, to a two-year term as first vice president. Hjssil E. Schenck, Lebanon, the current president, was elected for two years in 1955. Tax measures favored by the convention included a surtax on the gross income tax, a higher gasoline tax, and a plan to equalize state income taxes for farmers and businessmen who escape the Indiana tax by selling in other states. Favor “Slow” Time The delegates decided the persona property tax for farmers shoud be based on 33 per cent of vaue, as it is for industry, rather than the current 70 per cent. They favored measures for branding and standards to distinguish Indiana farm on toe national market They aso favored a state-wide law to set standards on grade-A milk. Local communities now set the standards and some have no legal standards. Other resolutions urged increased doctors- training at Indiana University, establishment of a veterinary school at Purdue University, a law making Central Standard Time legal throughout the state, and a law banning “quickie” marriages. Membership at All-Time High The delegates directed the bureau to state officials to put state conservation jobs on . a merit basis. They also asked for a law setting up watershed districts in the state, called on the bureau to Institute a commodities department, trucks and automobiles to show two license plates. Delegates elected to attend the national American Farm Bureau convention in Miami Beach, Fa., next month included the three officers and Robert Jenkins, Pulaski County; Harold Umbaugh, Elkhart County; Carl Smith, Tippecanoe; Livings K. Brindle, Boone; Vernon Dorrel, Franklin; Ivan D. Williams, Posey, and Linville Bryant, Ripley. Bureau officials said their or<Continued on Page KleUt) I Near-Record Output Os Crops In 1956 Forecast Is Made By Ag Department WASHINGTON (UP) - The Agriculture Department predicts a “near-record” total crop production for 1956. A slight increase in outturn of late crops during October brought the all crop index of production to nearly 106 per cent of the 1947-49 base — “virtually on the record 1948 level,” the department said -Friday. The 1948 record also was nearly equalled in 1955. The department said in its November report on crop conditions that harvest results justified increases in estimates from a month ago for corn, sorghum grain, rice, tobacco, potatoes, sugar cane, and some fruits. Slight decreases were shown for soybeans, cotton, sugar beets, dry beans, peanuts, and vegetables. The corn crop was estimated at 3,412,183,000 bushels, second only to the 1948 record of 3,605,000,000 bushels. The November estimate was about 1 per cent above the forecast a month ago, 5 per cent above last year, and 11 per cent above average. The yield was estimated at a record 44 bushels, well above the previous record of 42.5 bushels in 1948 and the 40.6 bushels last year. Using the corn estimate as a (Continued on Pace Five)

Korea Reports Reds Build Up Frontal Force -8 - • ■> • ' ' Report No Definite Indications Reds Planning Attacks SEOUL, Korea (TO — Republic of Korea army chief of staff Gen. Lee Heng Kun said today that North Korean and Chinese Communist trucks believed carrying weapons and ammunition have been rolling towards the truce front in increasing numbers. ROK Defense Minister K 1 m Yong called an emergency meeting of the state council to discuss the reports from the Communist north. While ROK officials were taking precautionary measures following Soviet troops movements in Europe and the Middle East, they said there was no definite mdication that the Communists were going to attack. Lt. Gen. Paik In Yup, commander of the Sixth ROK Corps, denied a report from a news agency (not United Press) that a clash had broken out between North and South Korean troops on the central front. American and other South Korean officers here also said they knew nothing about the reported clash and no Seoul newspapers printed the report. The Communist high command in Korea; meanwhile, accused the United States forces of sending two ROK fighter planes over North Korea last Wednesday in a “hostile” and "serious” provocation. The North Koreans made the charge at a meeting of the armlstice commission in Panmunjom. North Korean delegate Maj. Gen. Chung Kook Pok said the two Fsl propeller-driven Mustangs invaded the airspace north of the truq« line and one of them was shot down in an aerial fight. Seoul authorities had announced earlier that the two Mustangs were flying south of the truce line when they were jumped by Red Mlg jets. Drive Next Thursday On Community Fund School Students To Make City Canvass A final effort to meet the $13,400 Community Fund goal for 1956 will be made Thursday evening in Decatur, when students of the two Decatur high schools, with the Boy Scouts, will continue their collection drive. With all.but six of the volunteer solicitors returning reports, the amount collected to date totals $11,767.98, over $1,600 short of the goal. Fred Schott, of Decatur high school, and David Heimann, of Decatur Catholic high school, are the student chairmen of the drive and Steve Everhart is in charge of Boy Scout participation. Hie drive will be a continuation of the door-to-door canvass of the city for “small change” donations which was begun earlier this month but not completed. Lyle Mallonee, general chairman of the 1956 Community Fund campaign, today issued an appeal to residents of Decatur to follow the example of other cities and towns of the area which have exceeded their Community Fund quotas. He pointed out that among the eight agencies and projects which are aided by the fund are seveUhl for the youth of Decatur. He added that organizations like the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts depend on a successful Community Fund campaign for the financial assistance necessary tot their projects throughout the year.

Handley Meets With GOP Legislators Discuss Plans For New Administration INDIANAPOLIS (IB - Gov.elect Harold W. Handley, a rash of post-election responsibilities behind him, heads for a 10-day Florida vacation with his famUy this weekend to rest up for two months of pre-inauguration work. The 61-day biennial session of the Indiana Legislature opens Jan. 10, and a few days later Handley will succeed Gov. George Craig—the first time since the 1920 s that one Republican governor has succeeded another Republican. Handley met Friday with a group of about 15 GOP legislators, including several holdover senators and representatives elected to office last Tuesday. They discussed plans for enacting laws encompassing planks of the GOP platform on which Handley and other state ticket candidates campaigned to victory by big margins over a Democratic ticket headed by Mayor Ralph Tinker of Terre Haute as gubernatorial nominee. House speaker George Diener (R-Indlanapolis) said Handley told the group he favored a state gasoline tax increase to help Indiana take advantage of the federal road-building program, but he did hot specify the size of the increase. Diener said a 2-cent ii»crease would raise about 30 million dollars more a year. Diener predicted an east-west dual-lane highway across southern Indiana and a north-south one linking Chicago and Louisville would get top priority when the legislature meets, Diener said lawmakers also discussed putting the highway department under the State Budget committee to control the multi-million-dollar highway spending program and making toe four-man budget committee elective by toe legislature. At present members are appointed by the governor. Handley told the group he was opposed to a law which would make it legal to integrate supplemental unemployment payments with state unemployment insurance benefits, Diener said. , Also present at the meeting were Lt. Gov.-elect Crawford Parker and GOP state chairman Alvin C. Cast. Cast said the Republican members of the State Senate and House of Representatives will caucus here next Thursday and pick candidates for Speaker of the House, majority leader, and president pro tern of toe Senate. Heavy GOP majorities in toe House and Senate mean toe candidates selected are assured of election. The GOP won control of toe Senate by a 33-17 margin and the House by 76-24. Handley said he will preview his legislative program for House and Senate members when he meets with them Dec. 11 as chairman of the legislative advisory commission.

Girl Scout Peanut Sale Opens Monday Annual Girl Scout Sale Planned Here The annual Girl Scout peanut sale will start Monday and extend to Nov. 21. The girls make a house-to-house canvass of toe city to solicit orders, according to an announcement today by Mrs. Randolph Brandyberry, chairman of toe sale. Profits from the annual sale are used to aid in financing activities of toe Girl Scout troops and also enables the girls to help with community service projects. This year the Scouts will sell three kinds of nuts. Mixed nuts will sell at 60 cents per can, blanched peanuts at 50 cents and Spanish peanuts for 40 cents. The girls will also offer a snack pack, consisting ’of one can of mixed and one can of blanched, for sl. » Girl Scout leaders are to file their orders with Mrs. Brandyberry no later than Nov. 30. The nuts will be delivered the week of Dec. 10.

Block Convoy Os Red Cross Medical Help Communist Guards Flatly Refuse Any Medical Supplies VIENNA (UP)—Hungary Communists refused today to admit through the Austrian border Western medical aid into Hungary for bleeding Budapest. Communist guards blocked an International Red Cross convoy of 15 trucks carrying food, medical supplies, doctors and nurses. They halted the convoy at the border crossing point at Klingenbach on the road to Sopron. The Reds flatly refused permission for the Red Cross unit to cross the frontier and said all Red Cross relief supplies must be channeled through Communist Yugoslavia. Refugees from the inflamed nation told an appaling story of death and destruction, of fire and famine, of daring and desperation. Tell Os Armed Might The escapees from Hungary said popular support of the antiCommunist revolt dwindled hourly under the heavy pounding by Soviet armored forces and the lack of food and medicines. They said the rebels abandoned their last fortified positions in blazing Budapest Wednesday afternoon and turned to hit-and-run guerrilla attacks with captured Russian arms and ammunition. Elek Feher, former member of the Hungarian Parliament, said doctors and nurses told him before he feld Budapest Wednesday night, that at least 8,000 or 9,000 Hungarians have been killed In the fighting. . Elek Feher is the name assumed by the former official after his escape from Hungary. He asked that his real name not be used because of fear of retaliation against his mother, who still lives in Budapest. Eye Witness Account An official of Hungary's antiCommunist smallholders party arrived in Vienna Friday with the first eye-witness account of the Budapest fighting to reach here since last Sunday. He said many Russian troops ceased fire in silent mutiny early this week when they discovered the “enemy”-in Budapest was the Hungarian people and not American invaders, as they had been told. Some 200 Russian soldiers surrendered to the rebels rather than continue fighting civilians, he said. Wounded soldiers in Budapest hospitals said they were Informed before Sunday’s attack that the enemy was an American force which invaded Hungary from the west. The refugee said he saw Wednesday that the U.S. legation, cut off from communication with the rest of the world, appeared unharmed in five days of bitter fighting in nearby streets. Holthouse Infant Dies At Louisville Services this afternoon for Sarah Marie Holthouse, twoand one-half pound infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Holthouse, of Louisville, Ky., who died at 9:30 p.m. Friday at a Louisville hospital, where she was born Thursday. Surviving in addition to the parents are two sisters, both at home, and the grandmothers, Mrs. A. R. Holthouse of Decatur and Mrs. Frank Wemhoff of Indianapolis. Mrs. A. R. Holthouse is visiting at her son’s ’ Postal Sub-Station Will Be Open Monday The Decatur downtown post office will be closed Monday in observance of Veterans Day, which falls on Sunday, but the 13th street sub-station at the Holthouse store will be open. There will be no regular deliveries, it was stated

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